Word: booth
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Jack E. Lueders-Booth, tutor in visual and environmental studies, said he supports Toni Marie Angeli, 31, who chose Tuesday to serve 30 days in jail rather than admit fault for a confrontation with police over the pictures taken last fall...
...companies that participate are mostly finance and consulting firms, but other participants include advertising agencies, pharmaceutical companies and the U.S. Armed Forces. Each corporation pays a fee, which purchases a forum booth, a profile in Crimson and Brown's magazine and an interview schedule...
...were picked up at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard as they floated on rafts, small boats and inner tubes toward the American coast in the summer of 1994. "The importantant thing about the exodus that summer is that Castro allowed it to happen," reports Caribbean bureau chief Cathy Booth. "If he did not, then no one would have been able to come. President Clinton's policy of turning back any more refugees makes it unlikely Castro will let anyone else leave. As for the conditions in Cuba, they are both better and worse. Economically, the situation is better...
...dodging pranks in Disney's 1993 film The Program. This time, however, the filmmakers appear to have been warned. Jack Lusk, senior vice president in charge of movie permits for New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority, says the MTA cooperated with the filming, but not with the token-booth scenes. "We objected to the torching of the booth," he says. "We said the torching was not central to the movie, and that it was a dangerous thing to do and could lead to violence...
...Appalled and dismayed" was Columbia Pictures' re-action to the torching of a New York City subway token booth by assailants whose attack closely resembled scenes from the studio's latest release, Money Train. The clerk working inside the booth suffered severe burns. G.O.P. presidential contender Bob Dole, who has been campaigning against Hollywood's "pornography of violence," took to the Senate floor to urge a boycott of the film. In the debate about whether the movie inspired the crime, it was almost forgotten that the film scenes were themselves inspired by a series of real-life attacks...