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The Excesses of State Regulation
booed trailers for the movie in Los Angeles and New York. New York
Times B1 (August 31,1992), s.2 p.6 (September 6,1992), B1 (September
14,1992). Farrow then felt compelled to issue a press statement declaring
that her relationship with Allen had not broken down before the movie
was completed, she knew nothing of his romance with Soon-Yi, and she
was not taking drugs during the shooting. "Her behavior on screen is all
acting." Los Angeles Times F2 (September 22, 1992). On television
viewers' confusion of character and actor, see Gitlin (1986); New York
Times B1 (September 25, 1992).
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On the pervasiveness of racial slurs in ordinary speech, see Davies
(1982); van Dijk(1987); Essed (1991).
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102 Searchlight 3 (August 1990); Gordon (1990a: 34-35).
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GLC(1984d:21).
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New York Times A3 (January 24, 1992).
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Chronicle of Higher Education A1 (October 31, 1991).
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"Home Design," New York Times Magazine pt.2 p. 7 (April 5, 1992); see
also Lee (1990: 61) (use of colour purple to evoke packaging of Silk Cut
cigarettes).
Appealing to a different audience, Van Halen's recent album was titled
"For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge."
Seeking verisimilitude, the serious play "Melody Jones," set in a 1970s
New Jersey strip club, hired a real stripper. Stephanie Blake is proud of her
body—she works out every day—and her skill.
Nowadays, strippers come out and dance one song, take off a piece of
clothing. The art is gone. So we're trying to bring that back—the teasing
part. . . . I'm known for being kind of an acrobat. It's good to have a
gimmick. I used to do one number where I took a bath in a big glass of
champagne.
Los Angeles Times F2 (August 29, 1992).
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New Statesman and Society 17 (October 4, 1991).
American family planning clinics responded to the Bush Administration's
gag rule prohibiting them from using federal money to discuss
abortion by dividing the time of advisers between federal and state
support; if a woman tested pregnant when the counsellor was being paid
by the federal government, she was advised to return when the state was
paying salaries. Los Angeles Times A1 (October 2, 1992).
Ambiguity also can be used to repress. In South African treason trials
the state constantly tried to show similarities between innocuous behaviour
and the political line of the banned ANC and SACP. Bruce Herschensohn,
far-right California Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate,
reproduced in his autumn 1990 newsletter a picture of the recently
released Nelson Mandela raising his clenched fist at the London rock
concert in his honour and called it "the communist salute." Los Angeles
Times A3 (October 12, 1992). This news report was accompanied by a
photograph of Dan Quayle at a campaign appearance in Los Angeles in
autumn 1992—making the same gesture!
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