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The nice thing about the digital destruction of the body is that there's no blood. Why, then, do these pictures remind me of the hospital? Because sanitation is a funny thing. Unerotic pictures of the naked body always look clinical, as if LoCurto and Outcault were undergoing a simple...
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, I would guess that anger is crowding the age's more obvious greed and lust for cultural primacy. But why? The reasons for greed and lust are self-evident: They come with their rewards. Anger is a dramatic and astringent passion. But what's the...
In a speech to a national scientific organization on Friday, Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences Matthew S. Meselson expressed cautious optimism that biotechnology will not necessarily be used for weapons of mass destruction.
He assures me he did not apply this kind of rigorous analysis to Titanic, then launches into a parody of a close reading of the film. "As Jack is screaming 'I'm the king of the world!' you'll notice that the crown of the ship actually has a crack...
I make a phone call, and DiCaprio uses the opportunity to sneak environmental propaganda into the tape recorder. "I shouldn't be eating hamburgers, because the methane gas cows release is the No. 1 contributor to the destruction of the ozone layer; and the No. 1 reason they destroy the...