Word: protested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story opens in a New York City heat wave as Joseph Santangelo (Vincent D'Onofrio), a butcher, wins his wife in a pinochle game with her father. The father bets his daughter's hand; Joseph bets a cold blast of air from his meat locker. After a small protest, Catherine Falconetti (Tracey Ullman, the overblown British comedienne) marries him, becomes pregnant, and falls victim to her haggard mother-in-law's Old World superstitions. Her first miscarried child seems to possess a chicken's wings. Why? Because she walked into the butcher's shop while Joseph slaughtered a turkey...
...actor, $6.5 million staging of Show Boat at the opulent new North York Performing Arts Centre in suburban Toronto. It has also been necessary to pass in front of black hecklers shouting insults and waving placards reading SHOW BOAT SPREADS LIES AND HATE and SHOW BOAT = CULTURAL GENOCIDE. The protest, under police guard, has not deterred many ticket holders but may have had a striking impact on potential sales: inside the theater, the only black faces readily apparent belong to ushers. As often happens when a work of art becomes a political symbol, those who denounce this Show Boat admit...
...alumni board of the Fly Club voted unanimously this week to allow its undergraduates to begin admitting women into the social club next fall, overturning a 157-year-old all-male policy that has been the target of protest for more than decade...
Some students said they have been forced to change their vacation schedules, and one even considered circulating a petition in protest...
...council member and at the time Ididn't know whether that was council procedure soof course I didn't make a formal protest,"Zamacona explained...