Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...principal asked MacFarlane to change the last name he had bestowed on his buffoonish cartoon clan, as it was also the surname of Schell's longtime assistant. MacFarlane refused. Schell got epistolary. With homemade letterhead boasting the name Proud Sponsors USA, he wrote advertisers decrying the show's subversive content. He failed to mention that the organization's membership comprised him alone. Fox confirms that at least three advertisers pulled out of the show. Is this the sound of one hand spanking...
...addition, a "content label" may appear as an extra letter tacked onto the icon: V (for violence), S (sexual situations), L (crude language) and D (suggestive dialogue). FV stands not for family viewing, as I assumed, but for "fantasy violence." Used with these ratings, the V chip could be helpful to parents who aren't always home when their kids watch TV and don't want them viewing South Park or the Playboy channel. However, not all networks and cable outlets use the ratings. (NBC, for instance, has declined to use the content label.) And programs are rated by their...
...McCain-Feingold is content to ban soft money ? hard money, after all, is how Iron John got his $6.1 million. Soft money, contributed by the bushel to the party and distributed as the DNC and RNC see fit, doesn't come into play until the primaries are over. For McCain, it is plenty evil enough. For Clinton and Gore, soft money was the Buddhist monks and the Lincoln bedroom. For the Republicans, it is the NRA and Big Tobacco ? and the source of Mitch McConnell's power. For a lonely maverick on Capitol Hill, it is the source...
...live up to its good-for-you hype would be required to admit that fact, and the Journal argued that margarine should be treated no differently. In an editorial accompanying the study, researchers insisted that not only should margarine products be required to disclose their trans-fatty-acid content but so too should fried fast foods like French fries, which account for up to 75% of the trans-fatty acids consumed--often unknowingly--in the U.S. each year...
...sight of a young girl practicing with her Hula Hoop (Lolita). Or a communications goof in the supposedly fail-safe nuclear-defense program (Dr. Strangelove). Or, as in the case of Eyes Wide Shut--which is due to open July 16 after years of wildly misguided speculation about its content--a confession of unconsummated sexual flirtation...