Word: resister
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Look into Camera No. 3. Keep an eye on the stage manager's hand signals and cue-card directions. Watch the TelePrompTer for commercial messages. Look into Camera No. 2. Resist the impulse to check your zipper. Look at the guest while talking to him. Keep an eye on the clock. Smile. Ask interesting questions. Don't cover your face with your hand. Listen to the guest's conversation and ask other interesting questions. Say funny things. Don't mug. Ignore Camera No. 1. Keep the conversation going. Don't make vulgar gestures or remarks. Try not to look...
...past three years. Clearly people are weary of the old politics. But the political system is simply not responsive to this desire for reform-the power and the privilege and the decision making were designed by the men who hold the key positions in the system, and they resist change...
...probably like Flesh. It's a supermarketful of genitalia, mostly male, which makes it a peculiar supermarket indeed. Who can resist Joe D'Alasandro, his phallus wrapped up in a St. Laurent scarf like an obscene Christmas present for Isadora Duncan? Who can pass up Candy Darling, a transvestite with rubykeeler red lips and a feather boa, reading '40's Hollywood pulp sags aloud to prove she couldn't care less about Joe's ongoing blow job? Who could miss a Warhol lampoon of Blow-Up, with Joe cast as Verushka...
...made no attempt to resist arrest for violating city segregation ordinances. Still, in an event which compressed past and future into the liquid nugget of the present, her stand echoed the tradition of subtle resistance that had characterized the efforts black people have made to obtain justice in America-the quiet violence of ground glass in the master's soup-while simultaneously conveying the continuing injustice and simple pain of the present, Rosa Parks had made her point: NO MORE. She would not be moved. It was a supremely tangible expression, as plain and physical as the way in which...
...addition to the FBI documents, the latest packet contains a mimeographed plea for funds from RESIST, stating that the cost of xeroxing and distributing the stolen FBI material is becoming prohibitive. The message asks newspapers to help defray the cost...