Word: public
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anticensorship lobby, People for the American Way, fears that the board's concessions could send the wrong message to nervous publishers or fire up Fundamentalists elsewhere. But California's superintendent of public instruction, Bill Honig, contends that advocacy of evolution remains firmly in place; irate California Fundamentalists agree...
Rarely since the Viet Nam War had an issue provoked Australians to stage such a large and angry public protest. Late last month 8,000 citizens linked arms to form an eight-mile chain along a Queensland beach to demonstrate against a three-month-old pilots' strike that has all but crippled the * country. Said Gabrielle Gibbs, a homemaker who organized the protest: "This incredible waste of human, financial and emotional resources must be stopped...
...pain grows, the public is becoming furious with the pilots. In a Morgan Gallup poll taken last month, only 2% of the consumers surveyed said they support the strikers' wage demands. Bolstered by the customer outrage, airlines have stuck to their offer of a 6% raise, but only if the pilots agree to increase their average monthly flying schedule from 31 hours to 55. In an even tougher example of the airlines' stance, they flatly turned down an offer by the pilots to suspend the strike temporarily during the Christmas season. But if the strike carries on, spoiled holiday plans...
...Keeffe exhibited the bold flower paintings that further inflamed her reputation. They have since become the staple of a prolific calendar and poster industry. But when the overripe irises and hollyhocks first appeared, the critics were intrigued, the public scandalized, the artist discomfited. When an interviewer remarked that the blossoms resembled female genitalia, O'Keeffe ordered her to turn off the microphone and refused to speak about "such rubbish...
...Mexico. But she never made a complete break. Shortly before his death at 82 in 1946, Stieglitz attended a Museum of Modern Art show and sent a love letter: "Incredible Georgia -- and how beautiful your pictures are . . . Oh Georgia -- we are a team." And so they remain in the public imagination...