MOVIES - Oct. 14, 1992

Second Thoughts: The Dallas Motion Picture Classification Board has eased up on its restrictive categorization of “Sarafina!,” withdrawing an initial caution that the film--which stars Whoopi Goldberg and is about the oppression of blacks in South Africa--contained some scenes depicting what it called “perversion.” Board members had said a scene where a constable kicks a youth fit the definition of sadism and therefore qualified under city ordinance as perversion. However, city attorneys advised that a classification of perversion requires a sexual connotation.