Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is now no doubt," said Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in his grim report on AIDS last month, "that we need sex education in schools and that it must include information on heterosexual and homosexual relationships." With characteristic bluntness, Koop made it clear that he was talking about graphic instruction starting "at the lowest grade possible," which he later identified as Grade 3. Because of the "deadly health hazard," he said later, "we have to be as explicit as necessary to get the message across. You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes...
Several poems in White Shroud are devoted to lengthy, graphic, and clinical descriptions of homosexual intercourse. Some of these poems were first published in the NAMBLA [North American Man-Boy Love Association] Journal. In poems like "Love Comes," the absolute explicitness robs sex of its mystery, thereby lessening the shock value and eliminating most of the eroticism...
...White Shroud] is the most graphic ever, except for one early poem called `Please, Master,' which was supergraphic. This is pretty clear, I think. Just the right moment in Moral Majority history to come out with something really graphic...
...chart in yesterday's Crimson incorrectly stated the results of a student poll on Question 5, the referendum on seat belts. The graphic indicated that 67 percent of those surveyed opposed the measure and 28 percent supported it. In fact, the results were just the opposite...
...fired from the wood and the bald man who was holding me took the bullet right through his face. It was a horrible sight. His head seemed to splash open and little soft bits of grey stuff flew out in all directions." Younger readers may be astonished that this graphic recollection comes from the author of durable children's books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Admirers of Roald Dahl's "grownup" ^ stories (Kiss Kiss, Switch Bitch) should not be surprised. The passage, which appears in the second installment of Dahl's memoirs, bears his stylistic signature: restraint balancing...