Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grange, Texas, who thought it was a competitor of Colonel Sanders would have been in for a surprise. Known as "the best little whorehouse in Texas," and celebrated under that title in a current Broadway musical hit, the Chicken Ranch did a brisk business until a Houston television station broadcast an "exposé" about it five years ago. That shamed the state authorities into shutting it down. Last September a shrewd lawyer moved the Chicken Ranch, virtually intact, to Dallas, where it became a sort of disco restaurant serving Spanish chicken, Mexican chicken, Swiss chicken and so on. Unfortunately...
...Helsinki accord that is supposed to guarantee human rights, had advocated secession of his native Republic of Georgia from the Soviet Union. Tried and convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda, he was sentenced to three years in prison. As part of its coverage of the trial, Vremya broadcast a taped confession by Gamsakhurdia. Whitney and Piper both wrote stories quoting Gamsakhurdia's friends as contending that the broadcast confession did not reflect his real views and seemed to have been fabricated...
...Supreme Court last week backed the Federal Communications Commission and banned the broadcast of comedian George Carlin's routine on "Filthy Words...
...majority opinion, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens said he did not consider the "reference to excretory and sexual organs and activities" as obscene. Instead, he termed it as "patently offensive" in a broadcast media that "excercises a uniquely pervasive presence in the lives of all Americans...
...they can win the dance contest; a middle-class housewife trying to get her accountant husband to loosen up a little; a singer looking for her big break; the deejay in his glass booth worrying that the Commodores' instruments won't arrive in time for their live broadcast performance; the joint's owner looking for a lady on whom to exercise his distinctly resistible charms for a one-night stand; various other stud: looking for the action; various sweeties looking for the same...