Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...chateau, we're confronted with Jesus Christ. The bearded one then takes a young woman back into his lair, and screams are heard from behind the door. Cut to: a crucifix covered in women's scalps, THE END. Protests over this sequence, and the film in general, in local newspapers caused a group of fervent rightists to invade the theater showing it, where they sliced up the screen, attacked the audience physically, and destroyed the original Surrealist canvases adorning the theater's lobby. Others found the filmmaker's artistic act of provocation to be a work of genius: avowed...
...official sandwich of an anti-U.S. trade crusade may seem somewhat treasonable, but the logic of globalization suggests that within a generation, corporations and products may lose their "national" identity. Nobody in Europe thinks of Fords as American cars, quite simply because they've been made in local plants, according to designs tailored for European markets, for more than half a century. And if all goes according to plan, 10 or 20 years from now an anti-American mob may charge right by a McDonald's without as much as lifting a stone. Because like the Ford logo...
Police say more students and staff members are reporting suspicious people. This has led to several arrests this fall--increasing arrest totals but potentially preventing future crimes. And as HUPD emphasizes, all crime is local...
...broader scale, this election may also prove a corrective to blind states'-rights activists. The federal government and its bureaucracy have a tendency to creatively and arbitrarily mess things up, but, as we've seen, devolving power to state and local officials doesn't solve the problem of homosapient-ism, which is to say that human beings have biases, perspectives, quirks, and make errors. (Theresa LePore, a Democrat, tried to help seniors read the ballot in Palm Beach by making the type-face bolder. In doing so, she had to re-arrange candidate's names. That might have cost...
College administrators, local cops and alcohol providers are working together to ensure that another local college student does not die of alcohol. But what are the consequences for the thirsty masses under 21? For many, the struggle to get a drink in Beantown has become a little bit harder--and the consequences are hardly a slap on the wrist...