Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione to prevent the magazine from publishing still photographs gleaned from the tape. The Lees lost, and Penthouse ran the photos that June. Meanwhile, copies of the purloined video found their way into the hands of various Internet impresarios, who began posting shots of the more graphic scenes on their Websites. Last fall the Lees went to court seeking an injunction against the Seattle company, Internet Entertainment Group, which had announced its intention to air the short film on its Website. A Superior Court judge denied the request, in part because the Lees undermined their invasion...
...fall, Death at Every Stop: The True Story of Andrew Cunanan--The Man Who Murdered Designer Gianni Versace, by Wensley Clarkson (author of Slave Girls), added a few new details to the once inescapable but now nearly forgotten Cunanan legend: he reportedly fathered a child and starred in two "graphic, low-budget, sadomasochistic gay pornographic videos." In a tribute to the speedy turnover of news cycles, few media outlets paid much attention to the revelations. They may be more interested in the official murder-investigation file, due to be released by year's end. The Versaces, worrying over personal information...
...advice provided in this graphic comes from the October 24, 1994 issue of Time and from the pamphlet "Preventing Problems at the Keyboard" distributed by Harvard University Health Services...
...have been fired in recent weeks due to "picket line violations" that include "swearing." While the dictates of good taste prohibit me from detailing specifically what was said, suffice it to say that threatening to rape and kill employees and their families in what the Boston Herald termed "shockingly graphic" terms does not constitute "swearing." This type of sexual and racial harassment would not be tolerated at Harvard University, in any newsroom in the country or indeed at any workplace. The National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency charged with the oversight of labor disputes, investigated this misconduct...
Some civil libertarians are worried that the appeals court ruling will lead to lawsuits against writers and publishers. Novels like The Godfather, works of history like The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and even TV news shows contain graphic descriptions of murder, notes University of Illinois law professor Ronald Rotunda. "I wouldn't be surprised if energetic prosecutors in less enlightened jurisdictions take advantage of this decision." But Floyd Abrams, a lawyer who often defends the media, doubts the ruling can be applied much beyond manuals on how to kill. "This is a book," says Abrams, "that tests...