Word: massed
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...Legion of Decency list posted in our local church. The Legion was a Catholic organization that rated movies for content and tone, from "A" for unobjectionable (good) to "C" for condemned (eeeeevil). For me, the "C" rating was a movie's most persuasive marketing tool. After Mass each Sunday I would check out the list, and I can say without irony that it stoked my teenage interest in foreign films, from Ingmar Bergman's "Sawdust and Tinsel" (known in the U.S. as "The Naked Night") to Luis Bu?uel's "Los Olvidados." I would sneak off to see dirty films...
...mature themes for a wide, grown-up audience. "Midnight Cowboy," which won the Oscar as best picture of 1969, was rated X; if you weren't at least 18, you couldn't see it. Same with such excellent films as "Medium Cool" and "The Devils." I don't remember mass complaints that kids couldn't see these movies. The idea then was that some things - intelligent films and, for that matter, the profits that came from them - were worth waiting...
...duty Cambridge police officers who frequented the Dunkin' Donuts on the corner of Mass. Ave and Bow Street will need to find another place for their morning caffeine...
...closing is the most recent announced departure from Harvard Square. In June, Sage's grocery store left its Brattle Street location. Grafton Street recently announced it would have to leave its 1280 Mass. Ave. location by next June to allow for the expansion of Cambridgeport Bank...
...decay of communism, combined with rising unemployment and rampant consumerism, has kindled a religious revival in China. Some Chinese, many elderly and disenfranchised, have taken to Falun Gong, the outlawed meditation group that spooked the nation's leadership by quietly mobilizing more than 10,000 people for a mass protest in Beijing last year. Other seekers of spirituality, mostly younger and more attuned to Western influences, have converted to Christianity. Two decades ago, shortly after the antireligion fervor of the Cultural Revolution, only 2 million Chinese identified themselves as Christian. Today the number is nearly 60 million, according to overseas...