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...latest musical incarnation, Madonna is Dita, the dominatrix persona and sex hostess of both Sex and Erotica. She intones over thumpy house beats on most of the album, which should keep DJ's mixing and remixing for months. In the title track Dita asks, "If I take you from behind/Push myself into your mind/When you least expect it/Will you try and reject it." The naughty little form/context twist is that at standard club volume, the fat bass line under this song does physically invade your body. Other audio tricks abound. "Bye Bye Baby," for instance, whips Madonna's voice into...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: HIGH-BROW PORN: | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

Secondly, the leaders failed to acknowledge how much fear Germany still inspires in Europeans. For instance, both sides in the French debate on Maastricht used anti-German arguments to bolster their cause. While the "non" side argued that France should not get in bed with a German dominatrix, the "oui" group argued that France should not get in bed with a German such "German demons" (as former Prime Minister Michel Rocard put it) could only be controlled by a tight embrace...

Author: By Jacques E.C. Hymans, | Title: Misjudging Maastricht | 10/2/1992 | See Source »

...Gotham City that looms like a rube's nightmare of Manhattan. He strips the Bruce Wayne legend down to its chassis, dumping Robin and the goony rogues' gallery. This is a face-off between two men in weird masks: one in a leathery black item out of a dominatrix's pleasure chest, the other with a grin frozen into a rictus. One man obsessed with good, the other enthralled by evil: Batman (Michael Keaton) and the Joker (Jack Nicholson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Murk in The Myth | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...though. Fleshing out a story by Horror Aesthete H.P. Lovecraft, Gordon finds florid visual correlatives for Lovecraft's eldritch prose, then adds a heavy dose of '80s psychosexuality. One messy kiss from the late Dr. Pretorious (Ted Sorel), and a cool blond psychiatrist (Barbara Crampton) gets tarted up in dominatrix leather to revive Nerdy Genius Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) by any means at hand. Heady stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bloody Good From Beyond | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...himself to slit the throat of his new companion. "It's not just pork. It's power," Joyce tells her sweet, weak husband. "Kill your friend!" Can he resist Joyce's way with the whip--especially when she is so erotically commanding in victory? "Well, Gilbert," purrs this domestic dominatrix, "I think sexual intercourse is in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Uneasy Riders and a Pig | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

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