Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kings of Kink. WAVAW has asked record-buyers to boycott the three companies. But so far the tactic has had little impact. In fact, record shops may be on the way toward luring browsers away from dirty-book shops. Some current albums: Wild Angel by Nelson Slater (girl wearing a chain gag); Bloodstone's Do You Wanna Do a Thing? (gang-rape scene); Pure Food and Drug Act's Choice Cuts (woman's bare buttocks stamped with the album title). A group called the Ohio Players has illustrated a series of albums with sadistic photos. Among them...
...What happened was the result of confusion, rather than of malice," he said. "It was some clever person's idea of a clever parliamentary tactic...
...student organizations. Many of these student activists along with some progressive faculty members, recognized the major link in these struggles as the need to unite around common interests in opposing the University's practice of discrimination. Clearly, fighting discrimination has been the most important principles of unity. A favorite tactic of the Harvard administration has been to play one organization off another, to frustrate Third World solidarity, and sequester progressive white and Third World students. The formation of the Task Force has signified the unity of these groups to put an end to this situation of divide-and-rule...
...even Vertes acknowledges that those who have reduced will have to remain vigilant for the rest of their lives. He cautions that unsupervised starvation is not a proper-or, indeed, safe-tactic for shedding a mere 10 to 20 lbs. But for massively obese people, starvation dieting does offer new hope. As former Superheavyweight Craig Hillier puts it, "It's as if God came down and touched me with a magic wand...
After that spot first appeared, one of Markey's opponents unsuccessfully copied Markey's tactic. The opponent, State Senator Steven McGrail, ran a film of himself in the State House chamber delivering a speech. He tried to look tough and dramatic, but, lacking the kind of spectacular incident that Markey had focused on, he failed to make a similar impact...