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...adults only. Most, like Medium Cool, were serious, intense, mature social studies; and one, Midnight Cowboy, won the Oscar for the best picture of 1969. But two things changed. The MPAA had copyrighted its other classification, but not the X, which was soon appropriated by the early-'70s wave of porno features. Studios quickly became reluctant to release X-rated films, and an important avenue for frank artistic initiative was closed off. The director was still "free to make any movie he wants to make"; but now his studio contract obliged him to trim an X down...
...court rules this way, it could open the floodgate to a wave of challenges to many of the moderate regulations that most Americans support. "You could very easily envision a challenge to the Brady Law on the grounds that there shouldn't be background checks for the exercise of a constitutional right," says Dennis Henigan of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Henigan also imagines challenges to the federal machine-gun ban and to a wide array of state licensing and registration laws. And convicted criminals might routinely contest the sentencing laws that increase their jail time for using...
...movie theaters. The authors stressed that there is no one, all-encompassing Indian immigrant experience. Anand, whose first book “An Indian in Cowboy Country: Stories from an Immigrant’s Life” was published last year, said he was part of an immigrant wave which first arrived in the U.S. to fill jobs vacated by Americans then fighting in the Vietnam War. He spoke about the differences between the experiences of the first wave and that of the second generation. “Coming here to do a job and being accepted are two different...
Best way for a guy/girl to get your attention: Wave. Or yell. Really loudly...
...reporters. Still, a jarring moment occurred anyway: The state-run Channel 1 TV station invited a group of Yeltsin's old associates to share their memories of their leader. For the first time in at least four years, the forgotten politicians known as"democrats of the first wave" showed up on TV, and for the first time in years, Russians heard a lively political discussion broadcast live as speaker after speaker invoked memories of "free speech and the free media as Yeltsin' uppermost historical achievement," drawing waves of applause from the studio audience. This breath of fresh...