I am reminded of the English professor last year who, responding to Huckleberry Finn's widespread banishment from public schools, was compelled to offer the Mark Twain classic, minus the nigger parts.
Its argument was perhaps directed both to Jews who, responding to their non-Jewish environment, had apostatized and adopted pagan gods and to rigorist Jews who in the same environment advocated complete religious and social isolation.
In all of them, the hero is a police officer with a rippling body who, responding to stock situations involving a helpless heroine/family/village threatened by a ruthless gangster, unleashes his brute strength on stream after stream of loaded men, often flattening these unfortunates with his bare hands — or paw, in the case of lion-emulating Bajirao Singham.
Kudos to Jaime Christley, who, responding to critics' rumblings of frustration in the Twitterverse and doubtless elsewhere, has posted a petition at Change.org to the distributor Fox Searchlight to request that film critics and other pertinent voting bodies be given the opportunity to view MARGARET prior to voting in applicable awards, or compiling applicable year-end "best of" lists.
The program works, prosecutors say, because it is often the corporate lawyers or their counterparts at law firms who, responding to a customer complaint or subpoena, discover the potential criminal problems and who understand that their clients can reap huge benefits by going to the Justice Department early.
The police said Mr. Pena, 35, used his daughter, Susie Marie, as a shield as he shot repeatedly at police officers who, responding to a report of a disturbance, had surrounded his car wash business in the Watts section of the city.
