Word: distributor
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...initiative petition, signed by more than 5000 registered voters, defines pornography as "the graphic sexuallly explicit subordination of women through pictures or words." As an amendment to the city's newly created Human Rights Commission, the ordinance would permit a victim to seek civil damages against the maker, distributor, seller or exhibitor of anything deemed sexually dehumanizing...
...their costs with cassette sales. "The producer can anticipate a profit even without a theatrical success and, in some cases, without a theatrical release," says Jon Peisinger, president of Vestron Video. "More movies today are created simply on the basis of potential revenues from home video." Vestron was the distributor of The Warrior and the Sorceress, for example, a low-budget action epic starring David Carradine, which had only a brief theatrical run in a few cities, but has sold more than 50,000 cassettes...
...founded the cosmetics distributor in 1963, became a multimillionaire after selling stock to the public in 1968. In recent years, though, she has wanted to return the firm to family ownership. "When a company is publicly held, you live in a fishbowl," said Monty Barber, a Mary Kay spokesman...
...Eastern Educational Network, the distributor of the games, has hired former CBS vice-president Barry Frank to produce the series. Frank served last year as the liaison between the Ivy League and Greg Harney Productions but had no hand in the production...
...Doonesbury once led readers on a comic tour through Ronald Reagan's brain and lanced House Speaker Tip O'Neill for protecting Congressmen who were chummy with South Korean lobbyists. Last month a sequence ridiculing the antiabortion documentary The Silent Scream so worried the Universal Press Syndicate, Doonesbury's distributor, that the artist agreed to withdraw it. Trudeau was back in the headlines (and his strip briefly out of several papers) last week for giving a black eye to Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra...