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...difficult tour de force of homage and imagination, Reminiscences de Don Juan, inspired by Mozart's Don Giovanni. In the text, he isolates from that piece a passage that erupts spectacularly in a cascade of chromatic octaves alternating with single notes. Liszt's dramatic ingenuity, writes Rosen, would "make explicit a Victorian condemnation of Don Juan's morals and amount to an assertion that his erotic misbehavior will lead to eternal damnation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: ABSOLUTE PITCH | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

...Internet, but exactly how much of this perverted smut is accessed by American children? As an experienced cyberjunkie, I know that the probability of an innocent third grader "accidentally'' logging on to a sex link is very minimal. Contrary to every parent's fears, children are not bombarded by explicit images every time they venture online. CLAIRE TELLING Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1995 | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

...solution: the "V-chip," an electronic circuit that would allow parents to block violent or otherwise objectionable material with remote controls. A Senate-passed measure would require the technology in new TV sets and force the cable and broadcast television industries to encode a rating in violent or sexually explicit programs that could be read by such scanners. "This is not censorship," Clinton said. "This is parental responsibility." The broadcast and manufacturing industries oppose the plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOLE LITE? | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

...IMMENSELY POPULAR. Trading in sexually explicit imagery, according to the report, is now "one of the largest (if not the largest) recreational applications of users of computer networks." At one U.S. university, 13 of the 40 most frequently visited newsgroups had names like alt.sex.stories, rec.arts.erotica and alt.sex.bondage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONLINE EROTICA: ON A SCREEN NEAR YOU | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

...committed a crime because I didn't offend anybody but a postal inspector in Memphis," he says, referring to the government official who launched the investigation. Thomas also faces charges in Salt Lake City of distributing images of naked children, but he insists those images aren't sexually explicit. "They are from nudist colonies," he says. "Many of them are family snapshots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Thomas: THE MARQUIS DE CYBERSPACE | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

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