Word: gores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lacks the mythic color and intensity of Schlondorff's best-known film The Tin Drum. Where the bizarre fantasy of The Tin Drum terrifies and disgusts, the efficient realism of Circle of Deceit fades into ennui. Both movies bear Schlondorff's unmistakable brass-knuckle touch in the scenes of gore and brutishly cold sex, which he portrays with neither relish nor repugnance. His films are not for the weak of stomach. Nor for the warm of heart...
...perverse ritual), not that of a cynic or a sensationalist. But motive makes small difference in the end result. The film best serves the values of the dimmest lurker in the deepest shadows of the grind house: it has lots of nudity, plenty of gross-out guts and gore, two or three scares-and it makes no sense whatsoever. Anyone grownup enough to gain legal admission to the movie (it is rated R) will probably find himself either reduced to guffaws or wishing he had stayed home looking at his poster of Nastassia Kinski wearing a snake...
...Albert Gore Jr., Representative from Tennessee, responding to Michigan Representative John Dingell's charge that "the little yellow people" were hurting the U.S. auto industry: "Those 'little yellow people' have built a plant in my district that is giving jobs to a lot of white and black people...
Hayes' chief ally in the fight for labeling, Tennessee Congressman Albert Gore, is unimpressed by these achievements. Gore thinks the voluntary approach is "almost certainly doomed to failure." What is needed, he believes, is a bill to require labeling under law. Along with Iowa Representative Neal Smith, he has written legislation requiring that the sodium and potassium content be marked on all processed and canned foods governed by the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, if the total exceeds 35 mg. The bill is now before a House health subcommittee chaired by California's Henry Waxman...
...sanctions on Libya even before Reagan announced the travel restriction. "The situation is serious enough to warrant the level of precautions," said Republican Senator Harrison Schmitt of New Mexico, who was briefed by the CIA. "I don't think the Administration is making it up," said Democratic Representative Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee, who also had a CIA briefing. "There's ample evidence that this is a very real threat...