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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mason spoke about the historical context of anti-abortion extremism and her impetus for confronting the issue in her research...
...participated in these relationships were married and had children (or would later marry and have children), yet they regarded their marital life as completely removed from any romantic ideals and geared exclusively towards reproduction. In the entire Symposium, the only mention of heterosexual intercourse is in the context of adultery. The adulterous man was understood to be acting out of love...
...forcing someone to have sex against their will-remains the same and should be punished severely. Rape is not a lesser crime if it is committed by a friends or acquaintance or if the person raped has been drinking. To attempt to distinguish degrees of punishment according to the context surrounding the rape diminishes the idea that rape itself, no matter the context, is a physically and psychologically destructive act committed against an individual...
...film's strong suit. Benigni keeps things moving ably enough, certainly. But there is a huge gap between competence and excellence in directing, a gap which is not bridged in this picture. Each scene is shot in a relatively utilitarian manner, and though this method worked well in context, it did not allow Benigni to establish enough of a distinctive style to wow the Academy into suspending their anti-foreign prejudices...
...drink one another's blood, necrophiliac morticians, people who claim to have been abducted and sexually molested by aliens, a married surgeon who sleeps with 10 women a month. But her writing style can be monotonous and self-conscious, and her need to place these people in cultural context and blame society for their freakish proclivities is trite. Still, the book is worth skimming--you'll feel contentedly average afterward...