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...however, is more concerned about violence and drugs than explicit sex. If he had been in office at the time, Guy says he might well have banned Stanley Kubrick's chilling A Clockwork Orange, which anyone over 18 could see, while letting Last Tango in Paris sail through. Another branch of government, however, may give the porn purveyors some anxiety. Seeking new sources of income, Finance Minister Jean-Pierre Fourcade last week suggested a tax on "this outburst of pornography...
...banks of the Charles River. Some buildings, like the one next to the USS Constitution, have managed to escape anonymity simply by historical proximity. But most of the structures are like Building 36, lacking a history before the mid-1800's, serving for a brief time as a sail-making factory, and scarred by an ugly brick addition tacked on to meet World War Two supply demands...
...From his tour profits, Rotelier Höltl has built a deluxe, 200-room Bavarian-style inn in his native Tittling. There, at prices ranging up to $40 a day, Rotel veterans who have seen the world from the windows of Holtl's buses may come to relax, sail in his man-made lake, dance in his discothèque and eat hearty Bavarian food that does not come...
...time is the not so distant future, when nearly 1 million hungry refugees from the Ganges commandeer 100 rusty ships-heavily freighted with symbolism and exiles-and set sail for the promised land of Europe. The white Christian world is a flaccid parody of its once dominant self, sapped by guilt, ecumenical dilutions of religion and "all that brotherhood crap." When it becomes clear that the passive invaders will run aground off the Côte d'Azur, the French are so "mucked up with brotherly love" that they turn their country over with scarcely a whimper...
Silver Bugs. From the moment one hoists sail, cuts the engine and bears away downwind to Bequia, euphoria supervenes. It would be hard to find a better stretch of water for the amateur-if not the raw novice. You are never out of sight of land, so navigation is easy. The trade winds blow their dependable 15 knots all day, squalls are brief, and the yacht bowls along through a vast basin of sea, rimmed by a half-circle of blue mountain peaks that runs south to Grenada 60 miles away. Braced against the wheel, refreshed with iced milk punch...