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...they showed it. At the University ofCalifornia Berkeley, 500 students--both liberaland conservative--marched on Sproul Hall onSeptember 14 to protest a University memorandumforbidding groups to offer literature on a campussidewalk. Eight were arrested after an all-nightsit-in, and other students began activelysoliciting on the sidewalk in deliberate defianceof the new rules...
...honor her, those of us who were children when she was in the White House, and our parents who wept that weekend long ago, and our children who have only a child's sense of who and what she was. I wish we could stand on the sidewalk as the caisson passes, and take off our hat, and explain to our sons and daughters and say, "That is a patriot passing by." I wish I could see someone'slittle boy, in a knee-length coat, lift his arm and salute...
First to be apprehended are Juan and Jose, spotted strolling along the sidewalk. "I woke up late," Jose explains halfheartedly as he and Juan are hustled into the van. The cops, of course, have heard it all before. "I had one girl tell me, 'Today is my day to get pregnant,"' Krajeski recalls, shaking his head. "I said, 'Excuse me?' I had to ask her to repeat it because I thought I heard her wrong. 'I'm going to meet my boyfriend,' she said. 'I want to be a young mother -- I want to have four children by the time...
Could any other tabloid newspaperman have been found on a New York City sidewalk in the middle of the afternoon, puffing a pipe and surveying the passing scene while listening to the music of Henry Purcell? It was Monday, the one working day he wasn't on deadline, and Murray Kempton was happy to slip off the earphones of his portable CD player and muse about Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events (Times Books; 570 pages; $27.50), a new collection of his writings...
...create consumer products out of filmed entertainment." And so for decades Mickey Mouse and other Disney icons shuttled between love and neglect: they were purchased by doting parents, then cradled in children's arms, then placed on bedroom toy shelves, then exiled to attics, then discarded in sidewalk rummage sales, then discovered by antique dealers who sold them at premium prices. And every few years a new generation of child consumers repeated the process and replenished the Disney coffers...