Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer. Feminist organizations across the country have been waging local antiporn skirmishes of their own. In Seattle the chapter of Women Against Violence Against Women campaigned successfully to get Paramount Pictures to remove objectionable ads for its sexploitation film Bloodline. In Minneapolis earlier this month, some 4,500 women from several states marched through the city's red-light district behind a banner that read: WOMEN UNITE, TAKE BACK THE NIGHT. In Cambridge, Mass., a porn fighter fired a rifle shot in the middle of the night into a Harvard Square bookshop that she said carried pornographic literature. With...
...this tepid horror movie had been made for peanuts by struggling B-movie makers, it would be easy to forgive and forget. But Prophecy is the work of a major director, John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate), working with a major budget ($8 million) for a major studio (Paramount). Prophecy is silly, overproduced and boring: there isn't a single scary moment. When the audience shrieks, it is only because the characters are too stupid to get out of harm's painfully obvious...
...withdraw from South Africa because it had not provided the University with enough information to judge the company's South African investments. But what about the 11 other corporations that thumbed their noses at Harvard? The University should not rely on the actions of others on this issue of paramount importance...
...shows, reruns of highly rated public-broadcasting programs (e.g., The Ascent of Man) that may not have been seen in some areas that cable now reaches. Superstations, however, are running into furious opposition from conventional broadcasters and their allies in the sports and entertainment worlds. MCA-Universal and Paramount are balking at selling any of their TV shows to Turner's Atlanta station, and the Los Angeles Dodgers are threatening to withdraw broadcast rights from KTTV if that Los Angeles station also goes on the satellite...
...withdraw from South Africa because it had not provided the University with enough information to judge the company's South African investments. But what about the eleven other corporations that thumbed their noses at Harvard? The University should not rely on the actions of others on this issue of paramount importance...