Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mortal Kombat, whose release last week in a $10 million Hollywood-style media blitz set off a nationwide debate about the escalating violence in video games (see box). The brutal kick-and-punch game is expected to bring in more than $150 million by Christmas -- roughly equivalent to ticket sales of a hit movie like The Fugitive...
...Brutal for Kids? Video violence...
...head off complaints, Nintendo chose to delete the digitized blood in its versions and replace the so-called finishing moves with less realistic endings, although the final product is still pretty brutal. Sega decided to use a warning label alerting parents that the game is not suitable for children under 13, but few expect that to have the desired effect. Peggy Charren, founder of Action for Children's Television, believes that the labels will actually make the game more attractive to kids: "It's a warning to the children that tells them, 'This is what I want...
...pretty brutal," Lai says. "They took people out and chopped off their heads...
After weeks of writing and rewriting, Bill Clinton was ready in June 1992 to publish Putting People First, a slim volume on his entire foreign and domestic program. After a brutal primary season, Clinton was running third in the polls, behind both George Bush and Ross Perot, and the Democrat's aides hoped the book would help jump-start his campaign. But on June 22, as the plates of Clinton's book were literally going on the presses, Little Rock, Arkansas, headquarters called for a halt. One line in a single chart just didn't make sense. The problem...