Number one singles quiz – As the single becomes an endangered species, remind yourself of pop’s glory days, and find out how well you remember what has topped the charts in years past.
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For years, Hollywood producers and directors have said the ratings are seriously flawed because the ratings board seems to view violence as far more permissible than sex. The Motion Picture Association of America denies this. Jack Valenti, who helped create the rating system 35 years ago as head of the Motion Picture Association of America, called such criticisms a canard. ”It’s easier to designate too much sex and language,” he said. ”It is there. What is too much violence?”
Ja vaikka ei poppia olekaan, niin suosittelen silti lukemaan NYTimesistä (r) jutun, joka kertoo amerikkalaisesta vasemmisto–oikeisto-käsiteparista ja sen absurdeista piirteistä: In 1954, the Girl Scouts of America was labeled a leftist organization when the American Legion and the House Committee on Un-American Activities accused it of permitting an ex-Communist to serve as a troop leader and of using a handbook that preached ”U.N. and World Government propaganda.”
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Word 99: Metastasize
Most people think that controlling arms shipments is merely a matter of international diplomacy. That may have been true during the cold war, when traffickers were often subcontractors of the superpowers, feeding the proxy conflicts Washington and Moscow wanted fought. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the exclusive club of arms brokers metastasized.
metastasize (v) : spread throughout the body, of cancer cells – source: Arms and the Man
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Kato musiikkiin kannattaa aina satsata. Kohtalo potkii munille eikä naisiin voi luottaa, mutta musiikki, musiikki ei petä koskaan. Kyllä jämpti on näin.– Onnen maa
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Palkkasoturi 2001
aseiden salakuljetuksen McDonalds, kuten eräs haastateltava asian toteaa.