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...Songs might also be called 9 Sex Acts, since it alternates between concert footage of such bands as Primal Scream and the Dandy Warhols and scenes depicting, in an unsensationally explicit fashion, the bedroom details of a summer affair. Matt (Kieran O'Brien) is a glaciologist, and Lisa (Margo Stilley) is a college girl visiting London. They have sex, go to a concert. Shag, song, shag, song. For 69 minutes...
...record, the two are decent-looking humans--not porn deities with outsize appendages--who bring lots of energy to an endeavor that is neither lurid nor especially compelling. This is the triumph, and the limitation, of 9 Songs: it makes explicit movie sex ordinary--as ordinary as the sexual activities of most of the folks watching it. --By Richard Corliss
...songs as Sex Weed and (Sex) Love Is What We Makin', survives the taint of creepiness--and it's a credit to his skills as a hitmaker that it almost does--the prosecution's key piece of evidence is available to anyone with an Internet connection. It's an explicit 26-minute video (widely believed to be one of the most bootlegged in history) called R. Kelly Exposed. Once you've seen the visuals--their authenticity is questioned by Kelly's lawyer, though the action takes place in a wood-paneled room that strongly resembles one in Kelly's house...
...election official when votes are being counted?as Arroyo has admitted doing?is most likely not unusual. The scandal generated over Arroyo's calls is both contrived and hypocritical: we are not supposed to know this happens, but because the conversations appear to have been caught on tape, our explicit code of proper civic behavior compels us to feign disgust. We have to go through the motions of being scandalized. One side of our schizophrenic political culture must be appeased. After we are done with the ceremonial self-flagellation (or, if I am mistaken, a more emphatic purging such...
...Paris's Olympic merits speak for themselves. The failure of that approach in the face of full-court lobbying by the British left him bitter. "What made us lose was fair play," Delanoe said from Singapore. In Paris, Pascal Bildstein, vice president of the French Triathlon Federation, was more explicit: "When Princess Anne promises all the IOC members an audience with the Queen, it's just not ethical. This was a victory for Anglo-Saxon lobbying, and a loss for real Olympic values...