Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Women Against Violence Against Women campaigned successfully to get Paramount Pictures to remove objectionable ads for its sexploitation film Bloodline. In Minneapolis earlier this month, some 4,500 women from several states marched through the city's red-light district behind a banner that read: WOMEN UNITE, TAKE BACK THE NIGHT. In Cambridge, Mass., a porn fighter fired a rifle shot in the middle of the night into a Harvard Square bookshop that she said carried pornographic literature. With obvious hyperbole, Cleveland Antiporn Campaigner Sandra Coster says of the crusade: "It's the one thing women can unite...
...hear me in full voice on the street," he says. Once, as he was approaching the climactic A-flat in the prologue to I Pagliacci, a bus stopped between him and his audience. Without missing a beat, he stepped into the bus, blasted out the Aflat, then hopped back onto the sidewalk as the startled driver and passengers rolled away...
...American slob-hero of Maas' book is Richie Flynn, 33, a poor Irish boy from Manhattan who had a flurry of fame as a New York Giants' running back eleven years earlier. Though still honored on the saloon beat, where he peddles Goldblatt beer, Flynn has gnawing dreams of recaptured affluence. His road to riches is outlined for him by a city hall insider, who shows the ex-jock how he can buy a building condemned by the city and lease it back to New York as a day care center. All Richie needs is title...
...area's top don, whom Wainwright is out to get despite his non-involvement in the case, roves free as a boccie ball. King Kong, among others, is appropriately retired by his own associates. Amazingly, Richie Flynn comes out a little wealthier and healthier, though back to selling booze...
...cold war sprang from decisions made during hostilities. The Allied decision to halt Patton on his dash toward Berlin, for example, isolated the German capital and made it a focal point of confrontation in the postwar era. Says History Professor Robert Dallek of U.C.L.A.: "We have to go back. Where we are now is a direct result of what evolved during that time." To his own surprise, Dallek's newly published F.D.R. and American Foreign Policy, 1932-45, has sold, instead of a few volumes to scholars as might have been expected, 10,000 copies in three months. Says...