Word: recorditis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, the Crimson stumbled, bumbled, clambered, crawled and begged its way to a 3-7 record. Now, it's simply known as The Fall--falling from Ivy League favorite to a sixth-place tie with lowly Columbia. This season's squad isn't expected to do much better at The Stadium, but the traditional line is never to underestimate one of Restic's teams...
...fastest riser on record," says Ron Moore, an astronomer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. So fast, in fact, that astronomers are betting on 1990 or perhaps even later this year, instead of 1991, as the beginning of the maximum. And what a maximum it could be. Despite the ferocity of the March flares, Moore warns, "this cycle is still in its early phase. It's got quite a way to go." Solar buffs are speculating it might approach the violence reached by the 1957-58 maximum, which touched off five disruptive geomagnetic superstorms and vivid...
...automatic cameras possess night vision, which enabled them to record the bloody fighting along the major streets leading to Tiananmen Square. That sharp footage, skillfully edited and played repeatedly on state-run China Central Television, shows only aggressive "counterrevolutionary" demonstrators attacking impassive soldiers. Zooming in on individual faces in the crowd, the editors created televised WANTED posters, complete with telephone numbers for viewers to call to report on the students frozen on the screen...
Many a parent has been shocked and offended by the lyrical excesses of heavy- metal and rap music. Now Western Merchandisers Inc., an Amarillo-based record-store chain that operates 119 outlets in the Southwest, has taken a drastic step to ensure that albums like As Nasty As We Want to Be by 2 Live Crew do not fall into the hands of minors. Since June 8, the chain has been slapping little green stickers reading 18 TO PURCHASE on sexually explicit records and requiring customers to present proof of age before they can buy them...
...policy began after police filed charges against a Dallas branch of the record-store chain for selling harmful material to a minor. The store sold to a 13-year-old boy a rap album containing a graphic tune about a grotesque sex act. Though the charges were eventually dropped by a grand jury, the chain decided to be more prudent about prurience. "We feel we have an obligation to the customers and the communities we are in to police our sales," says Walter McNeer, an executive vice president at Western Merchandisers. "We do not want to be censors...