In captivity; tigers in Times Square.(animal rights demonstration)(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 08-APR-02

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"Is that legal?" Dennis, from Brooklyn, asked. He was standing on a traffic triangle in the middle of Times Square, next to a policeman. It was just past noon. In front of them, two nearly naked women were kneeling in a pair of small metal cages, holding signs that read, "Wild Animals Don't Belong Behind Bars." As it happens, cops in Shreveport, Louisiana, encountered a similar scenario last spring and concluded that no, it was not legal to impersonate an animal while nearly naked. But in Times Square, even post-Giuliani, traffic flow trumps decency, and the officer's answer to...

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