Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics of children's TV programming are flexing muscles in a number of arenas. In September, just three days before its new children's schedule was | set to debut, CBS abruptly withdrew The Garbage Pail Kids, a cartoon show based on the gross-out series of bubble-gum cards by that name. The network denies that it caved in to pressure, but the cancellation came after a barrage of complaints from parents and CBS affiliates...
...based on his show, and in January he will begin filming Caddyshack II, a big-budget film about a self-made millionaire who joins a snobbish country club -- only to run afoul of the members when he develops a low-income housing project nearby. In 1987 the comedian will gross well over $1 million...
...Fatal Infection." In Kathryn Bigelow's bleak, gross, great-looking horror movie Near Dark, an Oklahoma farm lad falls for an alluring blond from parts unknown. She seems interested in him, so why won't she give him a little love bite? Because, as he realizes too late, he will end up with the world's most toxic hickey. His dream girl is a vampire, and abstinence is the only sure precaution against infection. It takes several harrowing nights with her rambunctious vampire pals, who kidnap his kid sister, before he can escape from the Land of the Undead. Near...
...program will forgive the entire loan payments owed by graduates who earn under $15,000 annually. In addition, the program stipulates that alumni with salaries between $15,000 and $30,000 a year will be permitted to defer loan payments in excess of 10 percent of their gross income. The income ceiling will rise with the rate of inflation...
...closing bell rang at the New York Stock Exchange on what instantly became known as Black Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average had plunged 508 points, or an incredible 22.6%, to close for the day at 1738.74. Some $500 billion in paper value, a sum equal to the entire gross national product of France, vanished into thin air. Volume on the New York exchange topped 600 million shares, nearly doubling the all-time record. Brokers could find only one word to describe the rout, an old word long gone out of fashion but resurrected because no other would do: panic...