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...Down! and Peter Greenaway's The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, critics and directors petitioned the M.P.A.A. to amend its system and classify certain serious fare with an A (adult) rating. Publicly, M.P.A.A. president Jack Valenti opposed any alteration, while in private he helped hammer out the compromise. This week the first NC-17 film will be released: Philip Kaufman's love quadrangle Henry & June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Taking The Hex out of X | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

Police found a hammer on the scene and are testing it for possible fingerprints, according to police reports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS IN BRIEF | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

...send anyone out there without a tool," Anderson said. "You don't send a carpenter out to build a house without a hammer. I think John Silber is going to fail in a lot of things he thinks he can do himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mayors, Silber Slam Tax Roll Back Measure | 10/5/1990 | See Source »

...prominent citizens praised Milken's charitable contributions and personal interest in medical research, anticrime programs and other causes. Among his advocates: police chief Daryl Gates and Archbishop Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, California superintendent of education William Honig, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Occidental Petroleum chairman Armand Hammer. But is Milken a Johnny-come-lately to good works? Not so, according to his friend, attorney Richard Riordan. "This isn't like he began doing good because he felt the heat," says Riordan. "He's been doing this for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear Judge: Go Easy on Michael Milken | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

Nicole said she prefers such rap artists as M.C. Hammer and the controversial Public Enemy...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Local Students Sound Off on New Kids | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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