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Parental Guide. A classification system will enable the M.P.A.A. to label certain films as "Suggested for Mature Audiences." Even this is not mandatory; it is a "request" to theater owners and a caveat to customers. Valenti feels that it is up to grownups to decide which pictures they want their children to see; the warning label will be mainly a guide for parents...
...Confii Guide offers this choice caveat as a description: "Few students seek academic credit for sadism, but for those who do, there is always...
...onetime winter home of the Ringling Bros, troupe, Sarasota is accustomed to circuses. Not so Fox Run, where one resident last week repeated in horrified tones the oldest caveat of modern living: "You never know who your neighbors...
...write Lolita, which was to make him famous). Most of the copies of Despair remained in the London publisher's custody; in 1940 a Luftwaffe bomb reduced them to confetti. Nabokov explains all this in a foreword to this revised translation-also his own -and enters his usual caveat against reading anything into the book that isn't there: "Despair, in kinship with the rest of my books, has no social comment to make, no message to bring in its teeth...
...Democratic majority called, as expected (TIME, March 18), for "standby" tax increases that could be put into effect whenever needed by a joint resolution of Congress, plus immediate suspension of the investment tax credit. In deference to the Great Society-and the November elections-the report contained a pious caveat that "the poor, the sick, the aged, the infirm and the discriminated against" should not, in any case, be asked to "carry the major burdens of preventing inflation." The six-man G.O.P. minority demanded "an immediate deferral of federal spending for nonessential and low-priority projects," though New York...