Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delicate about such matters, but with a voice full of foreboding she'd offer these words to the wise: "He's never going to buy the cow if he can get the milk for free." The cow, of course, was the one-carat rock, the white picket fence, the happily ever after...
KARL MALONE is down with his fellow workers, but perhaps didn't realize they include people working in TV. The Utah Jazz basketballer, an outspoken advocate for NBA players locked out by team owners, appeared on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee last week, passing picketing ABC workers to do so. Malone's agent said the hoopster was ignorant of the strike and was asleep when his driver wheeled through the picket line. A spokesman for the striking ABC employees said the union accepts the highly plausible explanation. Later, Malone visited Central Park to film a video for a virtual...
Next to the chalk outlines (which number about 40), flyers were taped to the ground with the names of Deborah Forte, Rita Hester, Tyra Hunter, Brandon Teena, Rufus Turner, Kristen Page and Chanelle Picket. Each were "trans-people" killed in recent crimes of hate...
...show somewhere between "Leave it to Beaver" and "The Donna Reed Show." For him, it offers an escape from his less-than-idyllic real life to a haven where the weather is always sunny, everybody is gainfully employed and lives in a spick-and-span house with a white picket fence, and the main characters enjoy the kind of secure, comfortable family life he's never known. His obsession with Pleasantville borders on the pathological, or, in the eyes of his sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon), the merely pathetic. But thanks to the intercession of a cheerfully spooky TV repairman...
...decade of picket fences and placid smiles, of front lawns without weeds and a future without care, when children were wise enough to respect their parents--because Father knew best...