Word: harassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon handles the final show on the many ways other than Watergate in which he had abused his office with a hard-line approach?but without pugnacity. He attempts to explain away calmly such charges as his use of the IRS and FBI to harass those on his "enemies lists," his illegal wiretapping of so-called security risks, his vast underpayment of income taxes. Yet his bitterness erupts at times as he lacerates the Washington Post and its Watergate reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, as well as lawyers on the Watergate special prosecutor's staff...
...Arbor band, the Stooges, launched their careers and the genre of punk rock with a blend of nihilism and unheard-of histrionics. Iggy vomited on stage, stabbed himself with pencils, burned his skin with hot wax, flung himself onto broken glass and even leaped off the stage to harass the audience physically. Like a modern Dadaist, Iggy's style was confrontation, and his musical and theatrical lead inspired many later rockers. The mania for the stage spectaculars of Alice Cooper and others of his ilk was engendered in part by the Stooges' outrageous antics...
...through the region, which includes Mrs. Gandhi's constituency in Uttar Pradesh, TIME'S New Delhi bureau chief Lawrence Malkin encountered widespread resentment of Indira's rule. "During the emergency, some local officials arbitrarily used the suspension of habeas corpus and other rights to arrest or harass whomever they chose," Malkin reported. "Stories circulate of people being picked up for distributing handbills or simply for talking out of turn. In the countryside, fear has become so widespread that the independent election commission's posters now urge: VOTE WITHOUT FEAR...
...notion that there are national standards of what is acceptably sexually explicit in print and film. Instead, the court held that local juries could decide what is obscene for their communities.* Publishers and civil libertarians now fear that Flynt's conviction may encourage local law officials to harass other national publications, including those far more acceptable to most Americans than Flynt's seedy monthlies...
Carleton said she and her neighbors will "continue to harass the store quietly" and may try to organize a more formal demonstration against the store if the displays are not removed...