Word: speech
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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They waited, thinking she'd walk by, so they could take the last poster down, until they noticed that she was the posterer, at which point they fled. There is simply no excuse for this blatent suppression of freedom of speech. How anyone can talk about the need for protection of rights while actively stomping all over ours is beyond hypocrisy...
These people who intend to infringe on freedom of speech to suppress a minority's dissenting view may want to simply secede and create their own facist "PC" state, where everyone must be of one, and only one, mind. In this country, however, we don't tolerate this disgusting oppression...
Bush's words moved the U.S. position a bit closer to that of France, helping to heal what had briefly looked like an ugly split. In his own U.N. speech two weeks ago, President Francois Mitterrand had hinted that Iraq might only have to promise to pull out of Kuwait -- not actually do it -- in order to gain negotiations with Kuwait and progress toward an Arab-Israeli settlement. That spurred a prompt bid from Saddam Hussein for separate French-Iraqi negotiations, which Mitterrand righteously spurned. His government, meanwhile, hastened to assure allies that France still supported the U.N. resolutions calling...
...David Lynch movie? Perhaps not: a few heartening signs are emerging of a movement to reform campaign tactics. There is renewed interest in congressional proposals to require that the candidate or his designated spokesman appear on camera throughout all TV spots. "That way you would be returning politics to speech, not emotive symbols," argues Curtis Gans, the director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate. "It isn't attractive television for someone to just stand there and bad-mouth the opposition." Last week People for the American Way petitioned the FCC to mandate that the candidate...
LADY BOSS, by Jackie Collins (Simon & Schuster; 608 pages; $21.95), offers the reader a rare opportunity to watch adverbs mate. "Slowly, languorously" the naughty parts of speech tumble about during the sex scenes. But why aren't the scenes sexier? Never mind. The point of the story is to watch "darkly, exotically" beautiful but ruthless, yet sensitive and vulnerable female tycoon Lucky Santangelo -- she heads a billion-dollar shipping company but doesn't seem to go to the office much -- knife her way to ownership of Panther films, a big Hollywood studio. This she does without telling her actor husband...