Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anathematized for years because of her radical politics and trip to Hanoi during the war, won the Best Actress award for her role in Coming Home, an antiwar film focused sympathetically on the suffering of wounded American veterans. (Fonda, who is relentless, gave half of her acceptance speech in sign language "because there are 14 million deaf people in this country." New York Daily News Critic Rex Reed wrote bitchily that it "looked like an audition for The Miracle Worker. ") Jon Voight, who played opposite Fonda as a paraplegic vet, won the Best Actor award...
Almost all the developing nations at first refused to initial the accord, complaining that it would benefit them less than it would the industrial world. Unless they do sign, the liberalizations will not apply to them. Still the other delegates were relieved and exhilarated. Said Alonzo McDonald, who patiently handled the day-to-day negotiations for the U.S.: "The agreement is the most comprehensive and significant result produced by any trade negotiations up to this time...
...critical point right now. Every cattleman is going to be making decisions in the coming weeks that will affect prices for a long time." The decision should be made easier because futures prices for cattle have jumped 50% in the past year and reached new records-a sign that prices will go higher in the months ahead. Thus it would pay the cattleman to breed his herds instead of selling them...
...have announced that they do not discriminate in hiring or promoting people because they are homosexual. Television and movies are treating gay themes more openly and sympathetically. ABC's hit series Soap, for example, has two homosexual characters, one a macho football player. Another sign of the times: Advice Columnist Ann Landers, a stalwart champion of traditional morality, now counsels parents not to be ashamed of their homosexual children...
Despite these new forms of support, gays still often feel isolated and persecuted. There are now three homosexual bathhouses in Milwaukee, a sign in a way of how far the movement has come. But there has been a price to pay: since last year, police have arrested 36 men on charges of disorderly conduct, though the police found enough evidence to arraign only four. Says Milwaukee District Attorney E. Michael McCann: "I view the homosexual community as a quiet but suppurating sore on the body politic...