Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partement-and a swinging outpost of Southern France. Often likened to the Saint-Tropez of 20 years ago, the 8-sq.-mi. island boasts 36 restaurants, French bakeries, discos, wind surfing, sailing, a harbor full of yachts, elegant boutiques and enough local eccentrics to fill a Truffaut film. However, St. Barts-named by Columbus for his brother Bartolomeo-is more than a transplanted French beach resort. It is a beautiful, pastoral island, whose inhabitants-95% of the population of 2,800 are white-are mostly of Breton and Norman descent. In villages perched on the hillsides, older women still wear...
Four hundred protesters, including 30 Harvard students, picketed the opening of the film "Cruising" at the Sack 57 theater in Boston last night...
...Cruising" is the most oppressive, ugly, bigoted look at homosexuality ever presented on the screen," one of the protesters said yesterday, adding that the film is a direct threat to the public safety of all homosexuals...
...goal really wasn't to shut down the film," Robert L. Rothary '81, a GOOD member, said yesterday, adding that the protesters "got their opinion across, and turned people away from the cinema...
...public relations office of United Artists, which released the film, yesterday said it will wait until after the demonstration to comment officially...