Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University. The main features: graphic and erotic scenes of female mutilation, rape or murder. Slasher films are widely shown on cable TV, and video shops do a booming business in rentals, especially among eleven-to-15-year-olds. Youngsters watch three or four at a clip at all-night "gross-out" parties. In some fraternity houses on college campuses, slasher movies play continually in lounges, along with pornographic films...
...called for cuts in capital construction and the space program. He promised to reduce next year's defense budget 14% and disclosed that Moscow spent considerably more on the military than many of the Deputies suspected: about $130 billion a year, or some 9% of the Soviet Union's gross national product. Western leaders had long sought such an admission, but analysts insist that Gorbachev is still not leveling about defense layouts. Most think the military budget consumes somewhere between 12% and 16% of the country's GNP, and a few surmises go even higher. But Gorbachev's major concern...
...people (Justine Bateman, John Ritter), people named Moon and Dweezil Zappa. A sludge protest drew Dynasty's Linda Evans to Olympic, Wash. More recently, Dennis Weaver, Michael Landon and Robert Downey Jr. voiced their protest against offshore oil drilling at a rally in downtown L.A. And last weekend a gross of glitterati -- Diana Ross, Elton John, Sigourney Weaver -- joined world leaders in Our Common Future, a five-hour global telecast...
...developing world adapt to life without CFCs, which are used, among other things, as refrigerator coolants and blowing agents for making plastic foam. Just how this would be done was not specified. Still, Norway's Environment Minister Sissel Ronbeck announced that her country would contribute 0.1% of its gross national product, or about $88 million, if others would do the same...
...Gross refuses to disclose his sales, but says his customers include "convenience-store clerks and investment bankers." Not everyone is amused. Max Baril, chairman of the Rodeo Drive Association, the trade group for the chic thoroughfare, says the garbage idea stinks. Says he: "I take great offense that Mr. Gross calls our residents filthy." Not even filthy rich...