Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minor and an adult who were part of the 11:20 p.m. scuffle next to Out of Town News were arrested, according to Harvard police reports...
From now on, customers at 7-Eleven stores across the U.S. will have to buy Tabasco sauce if they want their eyes to pop. Last week Southland Corp., owner of the convenience chain, announced that it would no longer carry Playboy, Penthouse and Forum magazines, the three adult publications that now appear in its 4,500 7-Eleven stores. Southland additionally urged its 3,600 franchisees to follow suit. Southland President Jere Thompson said the action was in response to recent hearings conducted by the federal Commission on Pornography. Said Thompson: "The testimony indicates a growing public awareness...
...Eleven decision was the biggest move yet by convenience chains against the skin books. It was hailed by anti pornography activists, including the National Federation for Decency and the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty Federation. Both groups have supported a boycott of 7-Eleven for selling adult magazines. In a prepared statement, Falwell offered "my congratulations to the Southland Corp. for putting principle above financial gain. I sincerely hope that Christians in America will now show their appreciation by supporting 7-Eleven nationally...
...swim because "not only is running not cold, but I won't drown if I should stop suddenly"; another woman, traveling in Latin America, is dazzled by the profusion of rich colors but daydreams about the frail hands of her dying mother: "I traced with my finger the huge, adult bones, the fascinating veins that crossed it like mysterious rivers; I fitted my attention exactly to the ridgings of her knuckles, the wedding ring, her pale, flat nails." Not a false note sounds in these recordings of sorrow and sudden grace. Deborah Eisenberg's characters are a unique amalgam...
While Ramona's trial may have descended to farce at times, the only justice the other six now-dead adult Move members received was last year's Dantesque trial by fire and water. Unfortunately the report last month of the Special Investigation Committee enshrines that verdict...