Act of Killing triggers outcry in China Joshua Oppenheimer on The Act of Killing and its impact in the United States.
In May 1973 Beadle chaired the High Court appeal hearing for Peter Niesewand, a freelance reporter for the overseas press who had just been convicted of espionage under the Official Secrets Act, prompting outcry abroad.
Its creation largely stemmed from the great public outcry over the Excise Act of 1754, which gave tax collectors unlimited powers to interrogate colonists concerning their use of goods subject to customs.
Thus, this is not an issue of outcry.
"When the world learned that Lee Harvey Oswald purchased his weapon through the mail, there was a huge outcry, and the Gun Control Act of 1968 regulated the sale of guns through the mail.
When the government proposed creating a National Data Center in 1965, public outcry led to the passage of the Privacy Act of 1974, which prohibits federal agencies from routinely sharing personal information.
As the president of the oldest and largest bank headquartered in Philadelphia, I am absolutely mystified by the outcry of big banks and lobbyists over the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009.
The Oscar nomination received by The Act of Killing, the documentary about massacres in Indonesia in the 1960s, has caused an outcry in China, where the events – partly directed against ethnic Chinese in the country – were little known.
Imagine the outcry if similar restrictions were in place at London's O2 Arena next Saturday, to choose another act of mass entertainment at random.
Also last year, a white poet named Michael Derrick Hudson provoked an outcry by publishing his writing in a Best American Poetry anthology with the pen name Yi-Fen Chou, an act of yellowface reflecting a general acceptance of yellowface in the arts.
