Word: gores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Goes to the Drive-In," a tongue-in-cheek guide to what is playing under the stars. Writing from the redneck's point of view, Joe Bob Briggs (a pseudonym for Movie Critic John Bloom) tells his readers where they can find what they want: nudity, sex and gore galore. Joe Bob's alltime favorite was The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but he also raved about Burt Reynolds' W. W. and the Dixie Dancekings. Reviewing the new Stroker Ace, a dreary bomb starring Reynolds and Loni Anderson, he found much to praise: "Five motor-vehicle chases. Eight...
Tennessee Congressman Albert Gore Jr.: "There has got to be some movement on the negotiations...
...holdings). A typical Page One of Yomiuri will include consumer-oriented Japanese news as well as reports, especially human interest, from abroad. Inside are an editorial page, sports, business and women's news. The paper diligently covers crime, but stories are rarely explicit about sex or gore. All Japanese newspapers are privately owned; indeed, none sells shares on a public exchange. At Yomiuri, as at its rivals, a large block of stock is held in trust for employees. The major newspapers consider themselves independent from political figures, and advertisers: only 40% of Yomiuri's revenues come from advertising...
...Capitol Hill, Democratic Congressman Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee hailed the President's conciliatory speech as "an important change." Gore heads an influential group of lawmakers who have made their backing for the MX conditional upon, among other things, a moderation of the Administration's arms-control line. Said Gore: "The odds are that we'll continue our support." Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine, however, warned that support for the MX in Congress is still "eggshell thin." Cohen predicted that in coming weeks the House would appropriate $4.5 billion for building 100 of the controversial missiles...
Dissatisfaction with this response led the clergymen last week to press Congress to stop human engineering. Democratic Congressman Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee has introduced a bill, thought likely to win House approval, that would create a presidential commission to monitor, but not regulate, developments in the field. Gore last week called the clergymen's request for a moratorium on research "a hasty judgment...