Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wily Welles may have anticipated future tampering with his work. His 1939 contract with RKO Pictures stipulated that he would retain full control over the film, specifically citing its black-and-white photography. Last week the Turner Entertainment Co. gave up a possible court fight and abandoned its colorization plan. For Welles, who died in 1985, it was a victory from the grave...
...anyone who would kill Rushdie, observing that "to pay one man to kill another man is murder at a premium and not a religiously inspired act." This remarkable display of vacillation, played out in the dispatches from Tehran, suggested that pragmatists in Iran had begun a campaign to control the damage caused by the Ayatullah's earlier pronouncement...
...their families have been threatened by someone with a gun, and 30% are so fearful of being assaulted on the street that they would just as soon carry a gun themselves. An overwhelming 89% favor a two-week waiting period for gun purchasers, and 65% want stricter gun-control laws...
While Americans would welcome harsher gun-control measures, they are skeptical and ambivalent on the subject. Most do not want to ban gun possession entirely; 84% say people have a right to own guns, perhaps because 53% feel they are inadequately protected by police. As for semiautomatic weapons, 51% would make civilian ownership of these guns illegal. In any case, 48% believe new restrictions would not reduce the amount of violence...
...only known in the newspapers, but to see someone the newspapers have said is on the lam definitely has a touch of magic to it." The young apprentice also learns that "I had caught on with the great Dutch Schultz in his decline of empire, he was losing control." The mobster's legal problems are mounting, his bribe money is no longer good in New York City, and gentlemen competitors of Italian ancestry -- Schultz calls them "dago scungili" -- are moving in on his operations. Dreadful events threaten; all of them occur, and then some...