Word: hugs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the BAARD members said before the arraignment that they expected the charges to be dismissed because Cambridge police neglected to read the Riot Act or warn the protesters that they would be arrested once they stopped circling with picket signs and joined arms in a "hug...
...idea we would be arrested once we joined in that hug," Jo Swanson, who chose to represent herself, said yesterday. Swanson said the group was never given a warning or told to disperse before police arrested them...
...initiated the "hug," Will Doherty, a student at MIT, claimed that he only wanted to show the group's solidarity and hoped to attract attention from passing pedestrians...
Most of the demonstrators were immediately arrested after they broke from the picket line, joined arms, and began chanting "Hug against the draft." Police then moved in immediately and shoved the protestors into a paddy wagon parked several feet away...
...Taxi Driver's Cybill Shepard; but for the pristine campaign worker, Scorsese has substituted a passive, pliable coital robot. And it all ends with LaMotta, less than glorious in his heydey, the Raging Whale, even painful to look at, unable to get around his titanic belly to hug his brother. Everything is vile, and the only relief is vapidity...