Word: simone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reno, Simon, and company are worried sick about what exposure to violent images will do to the masses who watch TV for entertainment. For some reason, they do not think that their well-educated and well-heeled peers are at risk from watching violent informational programming...
...national level, this summer's anti-violence crusader Sen. Paul Simon has gained a powerful ally in Attorney General Janet Reno. Reno, embattled by an unbroken string of well-publicized law enforcement failures, has recognized what the bow-tied Mr. Potatohead of Capitol Hill has shrewdly seen all along: TV violence, unlike real violence, is an inherently solvable, if completely delusory, "problem...
...Reno and Simon have been helped in their Comstockian crusade by a degenerate gene pool and a population unwilling to accept responsibility. A few young children set fires; a few older children decide to lie down in the road for kicks. Their parents, instead of blaming either their own defective child-rearing, or their children's congenital dunderheadedness decide to blame Beavis and Butt-head and Disney...
Mini-pumpkins are also a hit item at Li'I Peach, where they sell for 60 cents. According to manager Simon H. Haidar, People buy them for their offices or their dorm rooms, then decorate or carve them...
...persistent band of rebels, living where such folk always do in fictions like this, in the city's underground passages. There they cook hamburgers (well, actually, they're ratburgers), swill beer and dream of cholesterol's restoration. To deal with the outlaws, Cocteau frees a killer named Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) from cryogenic prison (they took to deep-freezing criminals as early as 1996, during the last convulsive phase of urban warfare). To deal with him, his wimpy cops, not knowing Phoenix is in league with their boss, warm up his old nemesis John Spartan (Stallone), who's been doing...