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...those textbook close-ups of genitals it offers, and a glimpse of a fully frontal Peter Sarsgaard (as one of Alfred's aides), Kinsey is at heart a comedy of manners. It takes pains to document the midcentury naiveté of the prof and his inner circle. Alfred and his bride Clara (Laura Linney) are both virgins on their awkward wedding night. But he approaches his book project with all the daring of innocence. To get data on homosexuals, he simply goes to gay bars and questions the first guy he meets. He dutifully instructs his canvassers on how to elicit...
...share of shunga?"images of spring," a euphemism for the era's abundant pornography?and the show has dozens of such scenes, three of them by Utamaro. All the images are elegant, erotic and almost clinically explicit, as their purpose was not just to titillate but to educate. A bride sometimes brought a collection of shunga along with the wedding furniture...
Thus was born The Incredibles, a fantasy rooted in familiar family angst. The town has turned against superheroes--in part because of rising insurance premiums from unwanted rescues--so Mr. Incredible (voiced by Craig T. Nelson), his bride Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) and their kids Violet (Sarah Vowell) and Dash (Spencer Fox) have gone into some witless protection program. The Parrs, as they are known, now endure a subpar life. Dash is punished at school for flashing his gift of meta-speed. Violet, who can disappear, is invisible to the boy she adores. Mom, now called Helen, copes with raising...
Advice for when your daughter expects you to provide a lavish wedding and reasons why parents of the bride shouldn't always get stuck with the bill...
...Marriage has changed more in the past 30 years than in the previous 3,000," says historian Stephanie Coontz, author of a forthcoming history of marriage, to be published by Viking Penguin in May 2005. The tradition of the bride's parents' financing the nuptials, she notes, derives from the old dowry system, in which parents were essentially reimbursing the husband or his family for agreeing to take on the task of supporting their daughter...