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Lampley's argument, first and foremost, insults the intelligence of those in the Harvard communtity who are socially and politically sensitive to discrimination issues. We strongly doubt that a person stating that Black and gay discrimination are similar is drawing an explicit, literal analogy--such an effort would be inane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discrimination | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...acrid tang in nearly every area of modern American pop culture. Heavy-metal masters Motley Crue invoke images of satanism and the Beastie Boys mime masturbation onstage. Rap poets like N.W.A. and the 2 Live Crew call for the fire of war against police or the brimstone of explicit, sulfurous sex. Comedians like Sam Kinison and Howard Stern bring locker-room laughs to cable TV and morning radio. On network television, sitcom moms get snickers with innuendos about oral sex. In movies, the F word has become so common, like dirty wallpaper, the industry's conservative ratings board doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...which would conceivably outlaw depraved works like I Get a Kick Out of You, Die Walkure, Frankie and Johnny and Tosca. The music industry quickly forestalled such legislation by decreeing that record companies will decide which material is controversial and alert consumers with a label that reads PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT LYRICS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

Whatever heavy metal can do to provoke censure, rap can outdo. Whereas metal is mostly suggestive, this urban-black music is often politically or sexually explicit. N.W.A. (Niggers With Attitude) won an admonishing letter from the FBI for their song FTha Police, in which the singer warns the ghetto's occupying force: "Ice Cube will swarm/ On any m f in a blue uniform . . ./ A young nigger on the warpath,/ And when I finish it's gonna be a bloodbath." Another group, Public Enemy, has been charged with anti-Semitism in their lyrics and statements to the press. But their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

According to the indictment read aloud by Chernoff, Watkins allegedly raped the undergraduate woman after she went to his apartment to demand the return of a sexually explicit videotape made earlier in their relationship...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Watkins' Trial to Open Today | 5/2/1990 | See Source »

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