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Home video has also been a boon for some small films that did well with critics but badly at the box office. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, a sci- fi comedy that got sympathetic reviews but few theater customers, has gone platinum on cassette (100,000 units sold). Cross Creek, a well-reviewed drama about Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, surpassed its theatrical revenues with $1.5 million in home-video sales. A few films, like Crimes of Passion, have been re-edited for home video to restore racy or violent footage cut for the theatrical release. Some VCR owners actually prefer...
HOMOSEXUALITY. "Is homosexuality a disease? No! It is a sin," insists Preacher Joe Chambers of Paw Creek, N.C. His judgment is based on such Bible references as Leviticus 18: 22 ("You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination") and Romans 1: 27 ("men committing shameless acts with men"). Traditionalists thus believe that government should do nothing to recognize or encourage homosexual activity. In communities across the nation, Fundamentalists and other religionists are lobbying against homosexual-rights bills. They are alarmed by a federal court ruling applying the District of Columbia gay-rights...
Cambridge Police determined three weeks, ago that the two skulls originally came from an East Boston creek, but officials have yet to discover how they were transported to Cambridge...
Officials have learned that three youths transported the heads from the creek to a North Cambridge trinket shop to sell them...
...after Massey and several other firms rejected an industry agreement, hundreds of injuries have resulted from rock throwings, dynamitings and assaults. West Virginia state police have spent about $750,000 in extra manpower to try to keep peace. Said a miner in the picket line at Massey's Sprouse Creek processing plant in Lobata, W. Va.: "If something isn't done real soon to end the strike, there is going to be a lot more violence...