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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is soft-core software as well. The most successful by far is the Leisure Suit Larry series, expected to take in $20 million to $25 million at retail this year. Larry, a bumbling nerd of a hero, bounces from one sexual escapade to another with well-endowed females bearing names like Tawni, Bambi and Passionate Patti. The sex itself, however, happens under blankets or behind CENSORED signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erotic Electronic Encounters | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...movies are classified. But software publishers are noted for their independence, and they could not reach a consensus. The best they could do was to urge members to describe clearly on the package what appears on the disk. That is what Sierra On-Line has done with Leisure Suit Larry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erotic Electronic Encounters | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...Shekelle was in medical school in the 1970s, the gentle art of chiropractic was widely viewed as bunk: heir to the tradition of ! bloodletting and rattlesnake oil. The American Medical Association's committee on quackery had branded the practice an "unscientific cult," and medical- school professors had obediently followed suit. The reluctance of the so- called back-crackers to submit their technique to the scrutiny of hard science served only to reinforce the official scorn. Recalls Shekelle: "They were seen as hucksters and charlatans trying to dupe the public into paying for useless care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Method to Manipulation? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...halting, flustered debate performance that diminishes Bush's strongest suit, his image of competence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Fears and Choices on the Road to '92 | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...cheerful folkways. And The Doctor, after a good hour or so, goes all dithery -- devoutly Californian -- as Hurt discovers the meaning of life by dancing in the desert with a terminally ill patient (Elizabeth Perkins). He resolves to support another patient's rightful claim in a malpractice suit. This redemptive ploy, also used in Regarding Henry, must be Hollywood's new prescription for wellness: to atone for one's success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paging Doc Jollygood | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

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