Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filmed on the streets of Manhattan, and everyone within shooting distance seemed to have something to say about it. New York gays who live in the Greenwich Village area where much of the shooting was taking place were especially upset. Some who managed to get hold of a script protested that Cruising would be an insulting film because it depicts homosexuals as violent and sex-obsessed. Marshaling forces along the fringes of the street scenes and staging protest marches through the Village, the gays demanded that Mayor Edward Koch withdraw municipal assistance for the production...
Fields was using Baby LeRoy's posterior to administer a blunt point of protest about the prevailing school of American movie acting, juvenile division. Chaplin had done his best to counter cuteness and establish a kind of enhanced naturalism when he cast Jackie Coogan...
...Cremens's second inspection on March 1, he recorded on his notation sheet that "some progress" was made. But the tenants still felt that the common areas and other units were in need of repair. In protest, on March 1, some tenants chose to withhold their rent in an escrow account until the building met health guidelines...
Harvard, on May 4, brought eviction procedures against the tenants who were withholding their rents. The tenants said they saw it as a scare tactic to alienate others in the building, who were marginally participating in the protest. "It's scary to have a constable at your door," Ramseur said...
...rent increase, accepting whatever the examiner decided, and gradually implementing the increase in steps. Harvard agreed not to raise the rent until March 26, 1981, unless a major capital expense is required. Harvard dropped their eviction threat and paid tenants varying rebatements. All tenants dropped their right to protest violations which had occured in the past...