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...apart from any particular administration--is too critical and the interests of those who might wish to hear the address are too important to justify such interference. In light of these interests, it is not too much to ask of disapproving students that they close their cars, wear armbands, picket peacefully, or simply suffer through a disagreeable speech rather than prevent others from hearing...
...traced to a number of factors. First was Scargill's decision to call the strike without a national ballot among union members--earlier ballots had rejected strike calls--prompting many to label the walkout undemocratic. This view has been reinforced by nightly television broadcasts showing violence on the picket lines against miners who continue to work. Then there is the issue of Scargill himself. Rumored to be a member of the Communist Party, Scargill's talk of class warfare has not fallen on overly receptive ears in Thatcher's Britain...
...cost an estimated $2.6 billion in lost production and has contributed to the decline of the British pound (at one point this month, its value in U.S. dollars sank to an alltime low of $1.29, compared with $1.50 a year ago). About 140,000 miners are on the picket lines, but another 40,000 continue to work, a situation that has led to many ugly incidents. Televised scenes of bloody confrontations between police and miners have deeply unsettled a British public unaccustomed to such brutality...
...same time, the situation comedy seems to have lost the central place it once held in the nation's cultural consciousness. In the early 1970s, a bracing dose of social realism was injected into a genre previously dominated by white picket fences, pipe-smoking fathers, mischievous genies and flying nuns. Sitcoms began to tackle controversial issues, from racial bigotry to abortion, and to portray, often with biting candor, the way contemporary adults interact with one another at home and in the workplace. Sitcoms kept people home nights, inspired fads and catch phrases and created stars...
...They moved from New York to Los Angeles-a city that Parker detests to this day-and the marriage had troubles almost from the start. "Shirley had this drive, this push," Parker recalls. "She didn't want to be surrounded by a white picket fence. I would be wanting to putter around in the kitchen, and she wanted to be at the studio." Says MacLaine: "Steve was very supportive, but he just didn't want to be known as Mr. MacLaine. From day one, he talked of going to Japan, where he had spent some time...