Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the movie is not scheduled for release by Universal Pictures until this fall, a storm of protest has already begun. At a press conference last week, a group of conservative Christian ministers demanded that the studio destroy all copies of the film. The ministers, who had not seen the film but had read a version of the screenplay, charged that it portrays Jesus "as a mentally deranged and lust-driven man." Said the Rev. Lloyd John Ogilvie of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood: "It is the most serious misuse of film craft in the history of filmmaking...
...least 70% of the presidential vote, turned in its worst performance in 59 years. But opposition candidates were not satisfied with the returns. Last week Clouthier filed criminal charges against the National Registry of Voters, alleging that it had conspired to help steal the elections. Cardenas, meanwhile, staged a protest rally on Saturday in Mexico City, where he had outpolled Salinas by a sizable margin...
...sustained argument of the sort Dukakis is good at. On the other, emotional issues of the time, Dukakis voted "correctly" for a liberal. After all, in Massachusetts even Republican Governor Sargent signed a law challenging the constitutionality of the Viet Nam War. But Dukakis did not march or protest. He agreed with most of the goals, but did not think "demonstrating" an effective tool. Emotional binges are like staying up all night -- they throw one's schedule off. Vote, if that will do it; argue, if you have to; and if votes and arguments will not (yet) avail, then...
...prizes were held to be enormously important in the marketing of an artist: nothing could have given Robert Rauschenberg's career a faster boost than winning the Gran Premio in 1964. This changed in the wake of '68, when art-student radicals occupied the Accademia di Belli Arti, in protest against the commodification of culture (how many of them, one wonders, are art dealers today?). In panic, the Biennale decided in 1972 to jettison the prize system and turn itself into a noncompetitive symposium built around a historical or theme show in the Italian pavilion. Racked by ideological discord...
During the first weeks of the protest, police threatened to arrest Homefront '88 members until a city councilor intervened. But it was only two weeks ago that representatives of the group began meeting with city officials...