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...petition, which has already been signed and verified by the Cambridge Election Commission, defines pornography as the "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures or words." The ordinance, sponsored by the Women's Alliance Against Pornography, would permit a victim to seek civil damages against the maker, distributor, seller or distributor of anything deemed sexually dehumanizing...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: City Blocks Porn Referendum | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

...between the partners; everything is conveyed by looks of recrimination and guilt. Indeed, the pair say nothing at all to each other until Crockett's redemption at the episode's end, when he comes to Tubbs' aid in a tight spot. Again there are no heavy- handed closeups or explicit dialogue, just an understated shot of the pair walking away from the camera arm in arm and a terse final exchange. Crockett: "Want to go fishin'?" Tubbs: "I'd rather go trollin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Cool Cops, Hot Show | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Pornography Issue Removed From November Ballot By City Council | 9/12/1985 | See Source »

...first book was by a hard-drinking roustabout, Charles Bukowski. Says Martin: "He was the kind of guy that drank in sailors' bars, got into fights with everyone in the room and wound up drinking alone with everyone stretched out on the floor." Between bouts Bukowski wrote terse, explicit poetry and fiction in the self-advertising style of Henry Miller ("The young coeds came up with their hot young bodies and their pilot- light eyes . . ."). Martin offered to pay the author $100 a month if he would quit his postal worker's job and work full time on a novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Publishing Rises in the West | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...virtually all of the Democrats, the House last week passed, 295 to 127, a bill to impose economic sanctions on South Africa. It would ban new American loans and investment there, halt computer sales to the government and end the importation of Krugerrands unless South Africa begins to take explicit measures to reform its apartheid system. The day before, the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee had voted 16 to 1 to approve a similar, though less harsh, proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not a Black and White Issue | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

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