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...label lacks sex appeal. NC-17: it could be the license plate of the deputy attorney general of North Carolina. Instead it is the movie industry's latest code phrase, designating certain films for adults only -- no children under 17 allowed. Hollywood used to call...
...pornography. In the American mind it does, which is why many newspapers refuse to carry advertising for X-rated films and most theaters and pay-cable services refuse to show them. Independent distributors had an out when they got an X: they would take the free publicity, ignore the label and release the picture unrated. That option was not open to the major studios, which are M.P.A.A. members, so they obliged directors to deliver R-rated films (in which children under 17 must be accompanied by an adult). Kaufman was the latest auteur to face an X. He has faced...
Every time Lazarre-White dropped back to pass, there seemed to be at least two Purple People Eaters waiting for him, prompting Harvard Coach Joe Restic to label the Holy Cross pressure the fiercest his teams have faced, "anytime, anywhere...
...major literary character," and the author's achievement is "comparable in imagination and rhetoric" only to that of Shakespeare and a few other writers. Bloom's case is laid out in The Book of J (Grove Weidenfeld; $21.95), on sale this week. "J" (for Jahwist or Yahwist) is the label scholars give to one of the hypothetical documents from which the Pentateuch was compiled and to its author or authors. Bloom's commentary appears with a new translation of J passages by David Rosenberg, former chief editor of the Jewish Publication Society...
...another level, O-Positive is the exception rather than the rule. They are the band that struggled for years as a local favorite, with little or no recognition on the national scene. With the release of their second album on an independent label, they earned a loyal following. They were able to channel this support into radio airplay--first on college stations and then on commercial stations. Soon O-Positive broke into the mainstream in a way few of today's mass-produced, pre-fabricated pop stars...