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...years universities have turned a blind eye to the Internet traffic passing through their computer systems -- including the sexually explicit words and pictures in such USENET newsgroups as alt.sex and rec.arts.erotica. Those days may be over, at least at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. According to a new policy scheduled to go into effect this week, C.M.U. will no longer distribute dozens of sexually oriented bulletin boards -- even those that are primarily discussion groups. Experts in constitutional law say C.M.U.'s new policy may be ill advised. "The idea that you can't discuss sex in a university is absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Netwatch | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

Scarlett the telefilm is slightly more salacious than Scarlett the tome but ultimately no more compelling or fun. Margaret Mitchell's estate stipulated that a sequel to her 1936 novel not contain any explicit sex. The TV producers, spared this constraint, show Scarlett and Rhett disrobing each other frantically in a fisherman's hut. Moreover, the character of Lord Fenton (Sean Bean), with whom Scarlett has an affair, is given far more prominence than he enjoyed in the book. He is a secret rapist-murderer who beats Scarlett when she dismisses him. "I am not accustomed to sudden onsets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Tomorrow Is Another Yawn | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

Using sexually explicit material is tricky. What may scem refreshingly candid at first, runs the risk of becoming self-indulgent...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: An Angel at the Type writer | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

Although it contains no explicit sex or violence, "Clerks" was originally rated NC-17 based solely on its language...

Author: By Nell Freudenberger, | Title: Makers of 'Clerks' Speak at IOP | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...very frank, I wouldn't have chosen him if I saw slides showing sexually explicit things," she said. "I have looked at enough art works through history, and great art does not have to be sexually explicit...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: SUIT * * COUNTERSUIT | 11/2/1994 | See Source »

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