Word: picketer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...embryo even resembles a fetus, much less a child. It would change medicine by offering a less invasive procedure; change politics by moving abortion earlier in pregnancy, when fewer people have moral qualms; change, above all, the access, since protesters wouldn't know where to set up a picket line if abortion became part of mainstream family practice...
They walked the picket line for four months, and little attention was paid. Recognizable but anonymous, they are actors in commercials. They are cast for their generic perkiness or their unthreatening ethnicity. They have the faces and voices, and the skills, that advertisers need to seduce you into buying Tide...
...That's the rhetoric of the past. That's...class warfare." For that matter, why was the whole Democratic spectacle so, well, democratic? Every interest group got its five minutes in the spotlight: the Clinton family on Monday, the Kennedy family on Tuesday and then, the next night, a picket line: speakers from the teachers union, the AFL-CIO and the N.A.A.C.P. Four years ago, Bill Clinton won a landslide by serenading independent voters with themes like welfare reform, crime fighting, deficit reduction. Last week Gore sang that refrain too, but you had to listen carefully...
...professionals on this picket line love their work; they're not in it for the money. And whereas the evil pro star in the movie pulls in $5 million a season, Mary, who runs one of the world's largest film-stills archives and in her 33 years at MOMA has organized dozens of exhibitions, is paid $45,196 a year. Today a replacement player is sitting in her office, and it's not Keanu Reeves...
...Agudath Israel, he outschmoozed all the other pols there. He was at the center of a thousand bobbing black hats in the Hilton ballroom eager to get a closer look at the golden son of Italy who had come seeking their support. He seems to embody white-picket-fence family values. You'd want him to marry your daughter if he hadn't already married his grad-school sweetheart who's produced two adorable children and boasts that she cleans her own house. Do not expect any bimbo eruptions...