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...addition to rendering the violence more tolerable, the masks emphasize the animalistic nature of the drives with which Sade was obsessed. Portraying sado-masochism as conducted by animals implicitly challenges the notion that this is an acceptable form of sexual expression; the masks draw a visible barrier between reason and desire. And as if that were not obvious enough, the film also includes a running dialogue between a man (er...dog) and his gargantuan, sentient penis. While the depictions spring from a liberal attitude towards sex, the ethics motivating them are conservative...
...Paris agreement had several purposes. One was to remove a large barrier to U.S.-Soviet-Chinese detente. Another was to get the international community off the hook of recognizing the Khmer Rouge as the government of Cambodia; elections would in effect legitimize much of the present administration in Phnom Penh in coalition with other parties. Equally important, the peace plan would separate the Khmer Rouge from China, their principal sponsor; in return for having its clients admitted to the political game in Phnom Penh, Beijing agreed to stop supplying them with weapons. Including the Khmer Rouge in a settlement...
Little progress has been made on cleaning up the surrounding region. There is no equipment to decontaminate topsoil, and contaminated groundwater is backing up behind a concrete barrier near the reservoir that supplies water to the 2.6 million residents of Kiev. More than 700 peasants evacuated in 1986 have quietly moved back to their farm plots, where they consume contaminated animals and produce. "They would rather die here than live somewhere else," says Alexander Borovoi, a Russian nuclear physicist in charge of the sarcophagus. Some returned to find their homes pillaged of religious art. Although contaminated with cesium...
...majority of Hillel regulars, theorganization is "a supplement to their life atHarvard and not a barrier to it," she says...
...stingy bank CDs into the stock market. More than a quarter of the $120 billion they invested in mutual funds during that period has also ended up in the market. The sudden inflow helped propel the Dow Jones average to new heights last May, when it broke the 3400 barrier for the first time. By propping up the market with their new money, investors like Brown may have prevented or postponed the steep correction that analysts think is probably inevitable...