Word: explicitly
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...next week, is a sweet, very funny, volcanically romantic comedy-drama about relationships in post-9/11 New York City. It could slip comfily into any slot at the Sundance Film Festival, or the art-house screen at your local multiplex, except for one thing: it has lots of explicit, hard-core...
...This shouldn't be news. As I've been yammering for ages in TIME's hallowed pages and on its spiffy web pages, a genuinely mature film culture should allow for the explicit expression of love (sex) as least as much as it does the explicit expression of death (violence). And once upon a more adventurous time in movies, such a freedom of expression seemed imminent. In the late '60s and early '70s, as American directors like Arthur Penn (in Bonnie and Clyde) and Sam Peckinpah (in everything) pioneered the use of gaudy, picturesque images of violence, European directors like...
...last decade, some European directors (Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noe) have made serious dramas with explicit sexual elements; but these forays could be pretty dour. Nobody I'm aware of had tried a light-hearted X-rated social comedy. All hail, then, to writer-director John Cameron Mitchell, who wrote and starred in the off-Broadway musical hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch, for pretending the last 30 years didn't make hard-core romance obsolete. Shortbus is so retro, it seems sparkling...
...there with Citizen Kane or Drunken Master II; it's mostly clever, sometimes meandering. And I have to say I didn't get all that jazzed by the many gay exertions (or the straight ones). But I was, critically speaking, excited to see the coherent integration of explicit sex scenes into a naturalistic story film. Mitchell said that in press interviews here, he was asked over and over, "Why sex?" I wonder: What took so long? Most people laugh and cry; most people have sex, occasionally at the same time. Sex isn't divorced from our own emotional biographies...
...Republican hopes of retaining control of Congress in November. Among the registered voters who were polled, 54% said they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic candidate for Congress, compared with 39% who favored the Republican. That margin may be fueled by the rolling scandal over sexually explicit e-mails sent to teenage pages by Republican Representative Mark Foley. Almost 80% of respondents were aware of the scandal, and only 16% approve of the Republicans' handling of it. Those polled were divided, however, on whether House Speaker Dennis Hastert should resign over his handling of the Foley affair...