Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beliefs appeared to be a confused amalgam largely of his own devising. Said a Columbus neighbor, Denise Underwood, 20: "One week he was eating this because he wanted to be a Jew; then one week he wouldn't eat this because he wanted to be a Muslim." The core of his murky philosophy was hatred of Christianity. Probably central to his motivation was his sense of inadequacy and need for attention. Only two weeks before the killings he told a friend that he would soon "be all over the newspapers...
...movie deals with the sex lives of two old college chums, and it includes shots of Actress Ann-Margret in the buff. To a Georgia jury, the film was hard-core porn. The high court Justices, who had it run off in their own private screening room, firmly disagreed. Mere "depiction of a woman with a bare midriff," said Justice William Rehnquist speaking for the court, would not disqualify a film from the protection of the First Amendment. While the Carnal Knowledge narrative fairly seethes with sex, he noted, "there is no exhibition of the actors' genitals, lewd...
This time Justice Rehnquist tried again to make the high court's definition of hard-core porn sharp and clear. Communities, he repeated, can prosecute "representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, [or] masturbation, excretory functions and lewd exhibition of the genitals...
...publishers and movie officials felt the decision might help force porn-hunting prosecutors to distinguish between purple movies and publications and those that are merely blue. The ruling, said Film Industry Spokesman Jack Valenti, had strengthened "the freedom of the film maker to tell an honest story without hard-core pornography." Others were less enthusiastic. Echoing Justice Brennan, Playboy Enterprises' Robert A. Gutwillig complained that Carnal Knowledge was "a pitching back to the case-by-case review. The court is saying we don't know what it [pornography] is, but we'll know...
...court did indeed see hard-core porn in a companion case. As if to emphasize that they had not really gone soft on obscenity, the Justices upheld the conviction of William Hamling and five other defendants from the Los Angeles area for mailing some 55,000 copies of an advertisement for The Illustrated Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. The obscene ad included pictures "portraying heterosexual and homosexual intercourse, sodomy and a variety of deviate sexual acts...