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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 17 sepTember 2019
Women's Hall of Fame inducts Sotomayor, Fonda, Allred

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Davis said in accepting her
Associated Press award. "My own conscious-
U.S. Supreme Court Justice ness has been enabled al-
Sonia Sotomayor, actress ways by shared endeavors
Jane Fonda and attorney and collective conscious-
Gloria Allred were among ness."
the inductees at the Na- The hall in Seneca Falls,
tional Women's Hall of where a landmark U.S.
Fame on Saturday. women's rights convention
The Class of 2019 inducted took place in 1848, doesn't
into the hall in upstate New identify a theme when it
York also included activ- calls for nominations, said
ist Angela Davis , attorney induction chairwoman Su-
Sarah Deer, fashion design- jatha Ramanujan. But she
er Diane von Furstenberg said sometimes a theme
, retired Air Force fighter emerges, as it has this year,
pilot Nicole Malachowski, that reflects the political
the late artist and suffrag- and social mood of the
ist Rose O'Neill and the late country.
U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter "It shows up in the nomina-
of New York. tions because we ask the
Composer Laurie Spiegel general public," Ramanu-
was honored for her elec- jan said, "and in a time
tronic music compositions, when women are feeling
and molecular biologist In this May 12, 2018 file photo, actress Jane Fonda poses during a portrait session at the 71st inter- like their voices need to be
Flossie Wong-Staal for work national film festival, Cannes, in southern France. heard, they're nominating
that helped prove HIV is the Associated Press women whose voices were
cause of AIDS. loud." She pointed particu-
Davis, a onetime leader out and ultimately acquit- world of progressive po- two years in jail and on trial, larly to Allred and her work
of the Black Panther Party ted, said her activism was litical activism, anti-racist when I became involved as an advocate for women
and the Communist Party not hers alone. prison abolition struggles, in many international soli- who have been abused
USA who was prosecuted "At each significant turn- when I myself was on the darity efforts, intersectional and to Deer, a Native
for her alleged involvement ing point in my life, when FBI's 10 Most Wanted List feminist movements, I've American activist focused
in a 1970 courthouse shoot- I was introduced to the and ended up spending always been one of many," on victims' rights.q

Solid gold toilet stolen from Winston Churchill's birthplace

By GREGORY KATZ ously said: "Whatever you
Associated Press eat, a $200 lunch or a $2
LONDON (AP) — A unique hot dog, the results are the
solid gold toilet that was same, toilet-wise."
part of an art exhibit was Last year, the chief cura-
stolen early Saturday from tor at the Guggenheim
the magnificent home offered to lend the gold-
in England where British en toilet to U.S. President
wartime leader Winston Donald Trump and his wife
Churchill was born. Melania Trump when they
The toilet, valued at roughly asked to borrow a Van
1 million pounds ($1.25 mil- Gogh painting for their pri-
lion), was the work of Italian vate White House quarters.
artist Maurizio Cattelan. It Curator Nancy Spector
had been installed only two had been critical of Trump
days earlier at Blenheim in social media.
Palace, west of London, af- Saturday's theft also comes
ter previously being shown after Edward Spencer-
to appreciative audiences Churchill told The Times
at the Guggenheim Muse- newspaper that the gold-
um in New York. en toilet would not be very
Police said the toilet was easy to steal since it was
taken early Saturday by This Sept. 16, 2016 file image made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled "America," by connected to the palace's
thieves who used at least Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. plumbing.
two vehicles. Because it Associated Press "So no, I don't plan to be
had been connected to guarding it," he said.
the palace's plumbing sys- A 66-year-old man was ar- property about 4:50 a.m. appointment to use the toi- Thames Valley Police De-
tem, police said the toilet's rested in the case, but he and that the toilet was the let. This had proved popular tective Inspector Jess Milne
removal caused "significant has not been identified or only item taken. Closed when the toilet was on dis- said: "The artwork has not
damage and flooding" to charged. circuit TV footage is being play at the Guggenheim. been recovered at this time
the building, a UNESCO Inspector Richard Nicholls studied in the investigation. The artist intended the but we are conducting a
World Heritage site filled from Thames Valley Police Prior to the theft, visitors golden toilet to be a point- thorough investigation to
with valuable art and furni- said police believe the to the Cattelan exhibition ed satire about excessive find it and bring those re-
ture. thieves left the spacious could book a three-minute wealth. Cattelan has previ- sponsible to justice."q