Word: picketeers
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...course, the old traditions are sometimes worth preserving. The two most provocative new shows of the fall revive a venerable genre that has been under-represented of late: the medical drama. CBS's Chicago Hope, created by David E. Kelley (Picket Fences), has name stars -- Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, E.G. Marshall -- and provides familiar TV pleasures. It's a self-important but frequently entertaining mix of Ben Casey melodrama (should an operation be performed to separate two Siamese twins, even though both may die?) and St. Elsewhere-style modernism (the surgeons sing Midnight Train to Georgia around the operating table...
...despite workers' hardships on the picket line, the union has no plans to give...
...waters on Tuesday and Wednesday last week, the Thursday-Friday total dropped to a bit more than 2,000. But the drop-off may have resulted only from the heavy rain, high winds and stormy waters that threatened to swamp the pitifully unseaworthy rafts before they could reach the picket line of more than 70 U.S. Coast Guard and Navy vessels patrolling beyond the 12-mile territorial limit off Cuba's northern coast...
High drama. Searing conflict. That's what you might expect when you attend a viewing of Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest hit, True Lies -- but not in the movie itself. Rather, check out the picket lines surrounding theaters in many cities, deployed by Arab Americans objecting to yet another screen depiction of the Arab as blood-crazed terrorist. Alas, movies have a long tradition of stereotyping Middle Easterners...
...soldiers and thousands of plainclothes thugs who serve as the Haitian military's henchmen are only too pleased by the publicity surrounding this jerry-can stampede. The attention provides an effective smoke screen for those who are really keeping the military alive: the larger vessels that audaciously evade U.N. picket boats. The U.S., Canada and Argentina have stationed warships offshore, but are unable to maneuver in shallow waters. That leaves the jagged shoreline to "coast huggers," wildcat fuel runners who use the cover of darkness to spirit drums of gas and diesel into Haiti's biggest harbors...