Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Porizkova occupies the same comfortable niche she always does, as well. Although she only makes one brief appearance in swim attire, the director clearly plays up her fame as a model in the film. When she sits down, she does not merely sit, as would most actresses; rather, she assumes a pose that allows the camera to take a slow-mo pan of her body for the audience's enjoyment...
...former senior policy adviser to the Jacksoncampaign, Ronald Walters, however, advocatedresisting political tides. A self-proclaimed"insurgent," Walter described his history ofparticipating in sit-ins during the civil rightsmovement, giving the audience an outsider'sperspective on prompting political action...
...suspension of a part-time instructor led to months of strikes, demonstrations and clashes with police. The spokespersons of revolt -- they came from nowhere -- were doctoral candidates in confrontation, who skillfully mixed tactics of civil disobedience with the electronic amplifier of television. The global village became the global sit...
Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell's dramatic call for affirmative action in faculty appointments last fall followed a student sit-in at the office of Dean James Vorenberg '49 in the spring. Later, campus conservatives complained that they were not fairly represented on a student dean search committee which reserved two seats for members of the minority Coalition for Diversity. After a bitter campaign, the student body roundly rejected a proposal by the conservative Students' Alliance for Fairness to prevent seats in future ad hoc committees from being reserved for specific groups...
...this end, President Bok this fall agreed to have a member of the faculty sit on a permanent committee to review the University's real estate ventures...