Word: gored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BILL BRADLEY R.N.C. decides to focus half its fault finding on Bradley. Gore may have to find the other half...
...fairness, Gore isn't that gory--it'll probably get the industry's equivalent of a PG-13 rating--but Huenink, an affable Nebraskan with a breezy sense of humor, admits to having second thoughts about his game's title. "When we started it in 1996," he says, "violence wasn't such a big thing...
Violence has always been a big thing in the U.S., and there are good constitutional reasons why we can't legislate that out of our entertainment products. But the video-game industry makes only what it can sell. And as long as gore is what we're buying--for our kids and for ourselves--gore is what they'll give...
...growing political momentum to tighten the noose around the Second Amendment, which allows Americans to keep and bear arms. However, take a quick look around pop culture, and you will easily find examples of how violence is considered a creative outlet. Movies try to outdo one another in innovative gore, video games teach kids how to use guns, and the Internet is a wide-open forum. So while we're chipping away at the Second Amendment, why not peel back some layers of the First Amendment, which permits freedom of speech? Aren't we willing to subject movies, video games...
Bradley posted a hefty $4.3 million in the first quarter, and will do even better in the second: word on the street is that he could report as much as $8 million or $9 million, and Gore supporters are worried that he could top the Vice President's take. Bradley finance chairman LOUIS SUSMAN refused to speculate beyond "more than $6" million, but Bradley will clearly have the cash to be a contender...