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...origin and initial responses to Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a masterful combination of narrative and art criticism. He traces Picasso's inspiration back to an 1863 essay by Charles Baudelaire in which the French poet declared, somewhat arbitrarily, that carriages in the Bois de Boulogne and brothels were the two acceptable subjects for the "painter of modern life." The five female figures nakedly displaying themselves in Les Demoiselles are fairly obviously in a brothel, but Picasso, characteristically, was not content simply to do something that others had done before him. ("You've got to make what doesn't exist...
...SATURDAY NIGHTS, BRANDY'S Babes, "the World's First Cyber Brothel," cruise the Internet. According to their literature--which is pretty hard to miss if you're online--the Babes hang out in a public "chat" zone and, if you're lucky, will accompany you to a private place where you can swap dirty messages. And while they're online, you can tap into another computer and view their fescennine photos, which are supposedly updated every six minutes. Tricia, one of the Babes, promises more nymphotech is on the way, involving a video camera hooked...
...Americans to arrive. Last October the U.S.S. Harlan County, trying to land with a U.N.-sponsored team of military and police advisers, turned back after anti-U.S. mobs demonstrated at the port. This time Barnes, betting things will be different, has rented a room in a "strategically located" brothel with a roof that should command a good view of the first attack. Miami bureau chief Booth spent several days % last week at the army's decrepit general quarters, trying to glean what plans the country's military rulers might be making -- either to avoid an invasion by finally stepping...
...hapless lot recruited through local newspaper ads, scandalized the Cambodian provinces with their drinking and womanizing, but the U.N. could not discipline them. A U.N. task force has been created to investigate alleged black marketeering by peacekeepers, as well as charges that blue helmets regularly visited a Serb-run brothel outside Sarajevo whose "prostitutes" were in fact Muslim and Croat prisoners...
...heis to be Xiolou's best man at his wedding, thecostumed, stage-painted Dieyi looks more like abeautiful, jilted lover than a best man, theexpression on his face a perfect tale of betrayal.Xiaolou only exacerbates the situation byreferring to Dieyi as his "sworn brother" andsuggesting that they visit a brothel together,putting Dieyi through agonies to which Xiaolou isoblivous. Gong Li, who starred in "Raise the RedLantern," plays the manipulativeprostitute-turned-wife Juxian, whose charactercomes to control to some extent the weakenedXiaolou. The rivalry between Juxian and Dieyi forthe love of Xiaolou gives the movie much of itstension...