Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AFTER insuring that dissent would not be tolerated, the moderator of the rally showed clearly why the New Left--as a national movement--failed to win the support of most Americans--and eventually collapsed...
Sexual freedom--the right of women to control their own bodies and create the terms in which their sexuality can be expressed--is basic to the issue of personal freedom in which the Women's Movement is grounded. To assert, as Dines-Levi did, that women are defined solely by their mass-produced and mass-marketed images is to suggest wrongly that women cannot make choices about their own bodies...
...Dines-Levi's true intention was not to align herself--and an entire movement of women--with the repression of sexuality and Bible-toting book burners, then her analysis of the causes of violence against women would lead to a very different tactical answer...
...support and affirm a woman's right to control her own body and her own life is at the heart of the Women's Movement. Rape and sexual violence against women directly threaten those values; so does censorship of women's sexuality. Neither should be condoned...
...public relations gambit on behalf of a little-known Kentucky troupe and a for-profit health-care corporation. Blessed in its early years with remarkable taste, or maybe beginner's luck, the Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville soon developed into a hallmark of the regional- theater movement and one of the nation's prime showcases for new plays. Half a dozen transferred to Broadway or the movies. Two, The Gin Game and Crimes of the Heart, won Pulitzer Prizes. Then the festival fell on hard times. Of 37 works introduced from 1985 to 1988, few went...