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Word: picketeers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge teachers began an "informational picket" campaign in front of city schools yesterday, hoping to gain concessions in their stalled contract talks with the school department...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: City Teachers Start Picketing Schools | 9/20/1988 | See Source »

...LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. Now that ticket lines are replacing picket lines, Martin Scorsese's terrific film can be appreciated as a passionate, full-bodied meditation on Jesus' humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Sep. 19, 1988 | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. There was a movie buried under all the pre- release protest. Now that ticket lines are replacing picket lines, Martin Scorsese's film can be seen as a full-bodied meditation on Jesus' humanity. And a terrific movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Sep. 5, 1988 | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...bygone centuries, an unorthodox vision like Martin Scorsese's might have prompted heresy trials and burnings at the stake. Perhaps even a quick crusade mounted by ragtag armies. In the summer of 1988, the preferred methods of resistance are picket lines, economic boycotts and angry appearances on talk shows. If the furor surrounding Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ proves one thing, it is that in any era, seismic emotions are involved when people probe the nature of the man who is worshiped as God by well over a billion souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Who Was Jesus? | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...union has maintained throughout the lastthree weeks that the target of their protest wasthe contractors and not the University. But Murphysaid yesterday that the union will turn itsattention to Harvard and picket again if nofavorable results emerge by mid-September, whenthe next meeting is scheduled...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Painters Union Ends Picket After Talks With University | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

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