Word: movement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue has already been injected into 1980 presidential politics. Staking out political ground to the right of Jimmy Carter, California Governor Jerry Brown has supported the movement for a convention. Over the indignant opposition of many fellow Democrats in his state, he has arranged for speaking engagements around the country to promote the convention...
...movement against growth has led to violence, often aimed at the influx of homosexuals. A local newspaper ad placed by a Baptist minister last month called for vigilantes to take action against "female impersonators and queers." Victims of recent violence include a man beaten with a pipe as he used a phone booth, a jogger almost run down by a car, a local museum director shot and killed, a restaurant owner beaten unconscious, and Authors Tennessee Williams and Dotson Rader, who were mugged. Two of those arrested were sons of prominent local families...
Arab students in Israeli universities, calling themselves the Progressive Nationalist Movement, last month published a statement in favor of the Palestine Liberation Organization and against the "Zionist entity." At Haifa University, firebrand American Rabbi Meir Kahane called the Israeli Arabs "a time bomb in the Jewish state." Right-wing Jewish students then circulated petitions demanding the expulsion of all Arabs from Israeli universities...
...Secretary Bob Bergland last week as 4,000 farmers from as far away as Colorado rolled into Washington aboard tractors and campers to press for higher farm price supports. If Bergland's bluntness was startling, so was the demonstrators' cause. Last winter when the small American Agriculture Movement organized its first drive-in at the capital, farm prices were depressed and many U.S. farmers were genuinely strapped. But now the A.A.M. militants, who signaled their arrival by dis rupting traflic and scuffling with police, are crying poor at a time when most farm ers are doing quite well...
...this later portion of the film is Scott's decision to pretend to produce a porno film so he can interview some studs who come looking for a job, hoping they will lead him to his daughter. There is strong irony here, a sense of real narrative movement that momentarily revives the picture...