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...Splatter University. The main features: graphic and erotic scenes of female mutilation, rape or murder. Slasher films are widely shown on cable TV, and video shops do a booming business in rentals, especially among eleven-to-15-year-olds. Youngsters watch three or four at a clip at all-night "gross-out" parties. In some fraternity houses on college campuses, slasher movies play continually in lounges, along with pornographic films...
Protesters have besieged the British government with pleas to save the sites. They have written letters, staged marches and held all-night vigils. Among the petitioners: Laurence Olivier, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Dustin Hoffman and Princes Charles and Edward. Declared Tony Banks, a Labor Member of Parliament: "The destruction of these sites would represent the archaeological equivalent of destroying the rain forests. Once they are gone, they can never be reinstated." Last week both landmarks received last-minute reprieves. Developers of the Roman site announced that they will revise their plans and save the remains. And the government declared...
Massachusetts legislators are known to get a bit punch-drunk during all-night budget sessions, but this week the humor started at 2 p.m., rather than 2 a.m. In the midst of the final day of deliberations on the $12.3 billion state budget Tuesday, freshman Rep. Paul C. Casey '83 (D-Winchester) introduced an amendment to prevent the closing of the popular Stone Zoo in his district...
Many blacks have not forgiven Sawyer for the manner in which he became mayor. Backed by 23 whites on the 50-member city council, he prevailed in a raucous all-night session a week after Washington's death. Supporters of Alderman Tim Evans, an ally of Washington's, smelled a sellout. Shouting "Uncle Tom Sawyer!" they asked, "How much, Sawyer? How much?" as they threw coins at him from the gallery...
...order, Wagner wrote, "All non-military use permits and agreements will be cancelled. This includes, but is not limited to: unit functions, unit administrative nights, all-night schools, homeless and all sporting events, bingo, drum and bugle corps, elderly, registry or any other type of social or civic activity...