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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liederhosen, a critic coined the phrase "pornography of violence" in reaction to the Hollywood thrillers of the time. Like sexual pornography, it has grown up and grown bold since its tentative inception. Our concept of movie justice has gone from the hero pushing a mass-murderer off a cliff to the hero becoming a mass-murderer himself...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Cameron's Little Camera of Horrors | 10/17/1986 | See Source »

Christy's has the larger selection of magazines, housewares and cleaning equipment, but Store 24 is the only place a desperate student can get those oh-so-crucial Cliff's Notes...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Flooding the Late-Night Munchie Market | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Christy's has the larger selection of magazines, housewares and cleaning equipment, but Store 24 is the only place a desperate student can get those oh-so-crucial Cliff's Notes...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Flooding the Late-Night Munchie Market | 9/18/1986 | See Source »

Christy's has the larger selection of magazines, housewares and cleaning equipment, but Store 24 is the only place a desperate student can get those oh-so-crucial Cliff's Notes...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Flooding the Late-Night Munchie Market | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

Much of that money has gone for television commercials in a kind of surrogate Battle of the Long-Distance Pitchmen. AT&T employed Actor Cliff Robertson, who had earned a reputation for scrupulous honesty by blowing the whistle on a 1977 Hollywood embezzlement scandal, for a reported salary of $2 million a year. MCI riposted with Burt Lancaster and Comic Joan Rivers. Sprint was represented for a time by Psychologist Joyce Brothers. The campaign has also extended beyond the airwaves to local shopping malls and amusement parks, where the rival long-distance suppliers have even hired acrobats and clowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ratifying a Winner in the Phone Vote | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

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