Word: glorious
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Protagonist of the hearings was a little-known development company called Maine Clean Fuels, Inc., which is armed with precious federal permission to import foreign crude and residual oil. Clean Fuels wants to build-but not operate -a $150 million oil-desulfurization plant at the head of glorious Penobscot Bay. The proposed site: the little town of Searsport (pop. 1,800), a drab, faded conglomeration of weather-beaten brick buildings, a railroad depot, an oil tank farm and a Purina Dog Chow silo. Though Clean Fuels had previously been turned down by both Riverhead, N.Y., and South Portland...
...government-a wretched wedding of Mao Tse-tung and the Internal Revenue Service-treats each person as a consumer-producer who lives to enhance the glorious state. In a world of progressive monotony, Lucas flashes some bright signs of humor: when THX (Robert Duvall) watches television, he turns to a channel where a beating proceeds incessantly-the violence and sadism of today's viewing, minus the annoyances of plot. When THX is tried for the forbidden act of lovemaking, his judge is a computer. The police of the 25th century are chrome-plated automatons, one of whom is played...
...Glorious Fujicolor. More than 500 of Osaka's "avec" hotels-so called because the Japanese check into them with their lovers-feature the videotape extra. "This is an electronic age," explains Seishichi Sawa, manager of one of Osaka's avecs. "It's natural that our patrons would want to be electronically elevated to a romantic mood...
Operation of the pornetwork is simple. The tapes are run through a video player at the front desk. When customers drop a pair of 100-yen coins into a slot on a TV set in their rooms, the result is instant pornography, often in glorious Fujicolor. The odds are against tuning in at the beginning of the movie-the tape runs continuously. But picking up a show in midstream makes little difference; one popular pinkie simply follows an energetic coed as she hops in and out of a series of bedrooms...
Partly because of high labor costs and low consumer interest, the sales of classical recordings have been sagging drastically. As a result, economy-minded record companies are cleaning out their vaults and cramming their budget-priced labels with new releases of glorious old sounds...