Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...image problem. Its computers, monitors and CD-ROM drives had long been regarded as top-drawer offerings, but they had all the excitement of dinner and a movie on a first date. Not content with its puny 3% share of the U.S. desktop market, the company has jazzed things up with stylish designs and a new approach to building...
Written while he was living in Tangiers and first published in Paris, Naked Lunch was the subject of a precedent setting obscenity trial in the United States because of its violent and explicitly sexual content. Publishers won an appeal in Boston and the book was published...
Television executives announce revamped ratings system to offer more detailed descriptions of program content for concerned viewers. Improvement on last week's system hailed by White House, family-advocacy groups and Congressmen up for re-election...
...show was G, for general audiences; PG, required parental guidance; 14, suitable for those 14 years of age or older; or M, suitable for mature audiences. The more recent ratings added to the age-group classifications the letters V, S, L, D and FV--to denote violence, sexual content, vulgar language, suggestive dialogue, and fantasy violence in certain cartoons--yet were still not considered safe enough. The newest ratings (examples below) will present so clear a picture of program content, said a TV-network president, "that very busy people will not have to watch the shows themselves...
DETROIT: St. Ides Brewing Co., purveyor of malt liquor in large bottles, has stopped distributing its product Special Brew Freeze and Squeeze, because of reports that a New York store was selling it to minors. The product, essentially a Slurpee with 6 percent alcohol content, sells for about a dollar and is packaged in brightly-lettered soft plastic pouches. St. Ides president Minott Wessinger denied the product was developed with any Joe Camel-like intentions. "We took the necessary steps to identify that this product was an alcoholic beverage, and listed this fact not just once, but four times...