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...runt reactor can contaminate the nearby area if its radioactive core is fractured, in which case some radioactive particles could remain in the soil for decades. But the prospect that a radioactive cloud will spread across the region is universally discounted. "You would need a direct hit to splatter the stuff around," says Thomas B. Cochran of the New York City-based Natural Resources Defense Council. "And then it would be only a local hazard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A War Against the Earth | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...been going, the next shot she throws that far just might not splatter...

Author: By Jason Gross, | Title: An Ordinary Day at the Track | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

Wild at Heart, which sends a pair of loser lovers (Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern) on a trip into the dark night of the Southern Gothic soul, is a tonic for the senses and an assault on the sensibilities. Heads splatter, skulls explode, biker punks torture folks for the sheer heck of it, and a pair of loopy innocents find excitement in a side trip to hell. Pretty much like Blue Velvet. Yes, it's different, but the same kind of different; Lynch could no longer shock by being shocking. Many critics figured they had solved the mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Lynch: Czar of Bizarre | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

Biland also wrestled up to snuff, slipping by WPI, 3-2, and UNH, 4-2. He gathered his strength to splatter his NYU opponent...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Injury-Plagued Grapplers Initialize WPI, NYU, UNH | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Among the most offensive purveyors of brutality to women are slasher films. The movies that inaugurated the trend, including Friday the 13th, Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street, are now tame compared with such opuses as I Spit on Your Grave or Splatter 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Our Violent Kids | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

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