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...Guccione and Hugh Hefner is that Hustler's nudes are presented as nature intended, without benefit of airbrush or Vaselined camera lens. "The problem in this country," the movie Flynt proclaims, "is that sex [is considered] bad and ugly and dirty...If you don't like vaginas," he adds, "complain to the manufacturer." He means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORNOGRAPHY AND ITS DISCONTENTS | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...both Beavis and Butt-head, and he is taking on Hank Hill and one of his sidekicks, Boomhauer. The latter character's purposely inscrutable speech was inspired by a voice-mail message Judge received a few years ago from a ranting Southerner who, Judge ultimately deciphered, was calling to complain that Beavis &Butt-head didn't start on time. Judge listened to the tape 40 times initially and now plays it repeatedly every time he records Boomhauer's dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COOL, DUDE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...assistants. Among the students, not only are more of the concentrators men, an even larger proportion of the thesis-writers are also male. The only problem is that most of them are also wonderful and inspirational economists. I love my department, and so I often think that I should complain. Still, while I know that gender does not necessarily make any difference in accessibility and interest level, it is a little strange to envision myself as a blossoming academic when every single one of the academic role models I have is different from me in a fundamental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beyond Madonna and Thelma | 1/13/1997 | See Source »

People who work with the epidemic fear that upbeat news coverage is playing havoc with a decade of AIDS education. Doctors complain about patients who think that because their viral load is undetectable, the virus must be gone from their bodies. Wrong. AIDS counselors talk about teens who think that science has discovered a morning-after pill to undo last night's unsafe doings. It hasn't. And everybody is concerned that a false message will go out that AIDS has been defeated. With that, they figure, will come a return to the '70s, the whole goatish and unbuckled funfest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: HOPE WITH AN ASTERISK | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...history proved, the surface self-satisfaction of those years turned out to be just that. Agrarians, like today's lower middle class and working poor, would soon demand greater access to government, complain of the too-close relationship between government and business, rail against monopolies, seek improved public education and generally strive to become a more integral part of America. By listening to their grievances, Andrew Jackson, beaten badly in the election of 1824, was hoisted to the White House four years later on nothing more specific than his boisterous belief in the dignity of the ordinary citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO BE OR NOT TO BE...WHATEVER | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

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