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...many ways can crybabies parse shame and blame? In San Francisco last month, a motley flock turned out to picket the classic Disney movie Fantasia. One man complained that the spooky Night on Bald Mountain scene had terrified his child. Members of an organization called Dieters United objected to the tutu-clad hippos frolicking to the music of Dance of the Hours; the protesters felt the sequence ridiculed fat people. Conservationists were appalled at the waste of water in Sorcerer's Apprentice. Fundamentalist Christians bewailed ) the depiction of evolution in Rite of Spring. Antidrug forces suspected something subliminally prodrug...
University of Bridgeport Virginia's Governor -- and potential presidential candidate -- canceled his commencement speech on 24 hours' notice: he refused to cross the picket lines of striking faculty members...
...letter caused a furor on campus, prompting approximately 100 students to picket the club. University officials condemned the letter and asked the club to close down. Timothy J. Keating '85, who was then president of the club, declined to shut its doors, but issued an apology which described the newsletter as "a poor attempt at humor...
Last summer Kaufman allegedly conspired to disrupt the Massachusetts state Democratic convention. Party officials say he helped organize a picket line of local policemen outside the hall in Springfield. The demonstrators roughed up a few would-be conventioneers and delayed the start of the ceremonies for a few hours. Within days, the state party sued Kaufman and other local operatives for damages. Lawyers will take Kaufman's deposition in Boston this week...
Kaufman claims he had nothing to do with the fracas. He insists that he was holed up in a nearby hotel room -- and in constant cellular telephone contact with the picket line -- for a benign purpose: boning up for an appearance as a guest commentator on local television and radio news programs that night. One of the pickets allegedly boasted that "me and Kaufman really screwed up the convention." He later said the comment was just a joke...