Word: connors
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...boycott began when Nora Dunn, a cast member since 1985, announced she would not share the stage with Clay, in protest against his foul-mouthed material denigrating women, homosexuals and minority groups. Two days later, singer Sinead O'Connor, whose song Nothing Compares 2 U is No. 1 on the Billboard charts, backed out of her guest appearance. Said O'Connor: "It shows disrespect to women that Saturday Night Live expected me to perform on the same show as Andrew Dice Clay...
...Supreme Court ruled that the 1983 rerelease of the 1954 classic infringed the copyright of the Cornell Woolrich story, It Had to Be Murder, on which the movie was based. After Woolrich's death, his estate renewed the story's copyright. In the majority opinion, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the film could not be shown without permission from the current holder of the copyright, even though Woolrich had promised to renew his agreement with the filmmakers. The winner in the case was Sheldon Abend, a literary agent who bought the copyright from Woolrich's estate...
...their acts. No less than the FBI sends a warning letter to a rap group. Susan Baker (wife of the Secretary of State) and Tipper Gore (wife of the Tennessee Senator), founders of the Parents' Music Resource Center, lobby for proscriptive labeling of certain albums. John Cardinal O'Connor, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, inveighs against an Ozzy Osbourne song whose theme is suicide...
...fulfill the requirements that the Constitution imposes on them." But Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the dissent, acidly observed, "Today's casual embrace of taxation imposed by the unelected, life-tenured federal judiciary disregards fundamental precepts for the democratic control of public institutions." Like many liberals, Colleen O'Connor of the American Civil Liberties Union hailed the decision. Said she: "It means states and cities can't plead poverty to impede legal school desegregation...
With a small but dedicated following, Mecham would benefit if Annetta Conant swells the G.O.P. field to six. She is a former Evanista who pushed the legalization of Laetrile, the crackpot cancer cure, and secured a letter from Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (a fellow Arizonan) erroneously citing legal precedents for the Christian-nation resolution. The most recent entrant is ex-Congressman Sam Steiger, a rodeo bulldogger, airplane wing walker, horse-race broadcaster, rancher and now electronic-equipment entrepreneur. He was convicted of extortion when he was an aide to Mecham, but it was overturned...