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Clinton--and almost all politicians--are congenitally guilty of St. Augustine's lie No. 5: "That lie which is told from a desire to please others in smooth discourse." It is from this desire, not more carnal ones, that he gets the nickname Slick Willie. The presidential candidate who tells audiences one thing in New Hampshire and another in California fits into this category. Politicians have been helped mightily in this regard by the ubiquity and sophistication of pollsters who tell politicians what pleases voters...
...technicalities of the dissemination. American adolescents are in the midst of their own kind of sexual revolution--one that has left many parents feeling confused, frightened and almost powerless. Parents can search all they want for common ground with today's kids, trying to draw parallels between contemporary carnal knowledge and an earlier generation's free-love crusades, but the two movements are quite different. A desire to break out of the old-fashioned strictures fueled the '60s movement, and its participants made sexual freedom a kind of new religion. That sort of reverence has been replaced by a more...
Enter Leo. Slender, smooth, cupid-lipped, his refined looks suggest a dewier Brad Pitt--a Brad Pitt crossed with Natalie Portman, say. As a screen lover he is more chipper than smoldering, too boyish to be androgynous but too androgynous to be sexy in any threatening, carnal, actual sort of way. The Man in the Iron Mask plays this up perhaps too much, outfitting DiCaprio in 17th century blouses and wigs falling halfway down his back. In his butchier Titanic incarnation--where, of course, he has the added advantage of getting to die dreamily in the presence of his beloved...
...over her music. On some level, it's Madonna's own fault. Though she is the quintessential marketing genius, the prelude to each of her recent albums has involved a media blitz that focuses on everything but the music. In 1992, she dumped Sex, her disastrous book of carnal fantasies, onto the market just two weeks before the release of Erotica. Furthermore, her terrifyingly bad movie, Body of Evidence, hit theaters the same weekend of the album's release. Result: She whines that the vastly underrated album never got the listening it deserved, but Madonna shrewdly orchestrated the blitz...
...tabloidy times is just the recurrence of something eternal in human nature. Weegee's world is one where the cops have just beaten the suspect, where the crowd leers at the beauty queen and where the accused nanny gazes into the camera. His world is lustrous, crowded, carnal and guilty. Sound familiar...