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...Slightly Abridged Version)," by David Heatley (who also appears in "McSweeny's" #13), stands out as another in the brutal honesty school of autobio comix. Rendered as 672 tiny panels across fifteen pages, the title delivers on its promise of full exposure, tracing the author's sexual maturation with explicit candor. Like it or not you can't turn away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of the Anthology | 11/24/2004 | See Source »

...legs, is very sexy and very funny, primarily because it's about control and power. To me the sexiest thing I've ever seen is in 'Repulsion,' when Catherine Deneuve is lying on the bed and her sister is coming in the next room. That's sexy." Anything more explicit is, to Nichols, just clinical. "Sex is very powerful as part of a fantasy, part of what glues you to someone, part of what makes life with one person the great adventure. But to stare directly at it is to be wasting most of what's available in drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whatever Happened to Movie Sex? | 11/24/2004 | See Source »

...never need it / It fills in the hole I know” is more in-joke than description, and though “I drank from the wine that came from inside / the heart of his meat and the splurge of his sweet” is a little more explicit, it’s still couched in enough euphemism to have gotten past the Breen Office or the FCC. However, there are exceptions for those who are paying close enough attention; lines like “I kissed his ugly gangly greens, he swallowed my pee?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

...rimmed glasses and a spacious office to boot—is one of 88 senior women out of the 439 tenured faculty members in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Many of these women are of Carey’s generation, scholars who spent their formative years battling explicit gender discrimination to reach the vanguards of their respective fields...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, | Title: Still in the Shadows | 11/18/2004 | See Source »

...BILL O'REILLY, 55, FOX News channel's brashly conservative talk-show host, and Andrea Mackris, 33, former producer of his show The O'Reilly Factor; for an undisclosed sum; in New York City. O'Reilly had vowed to fight the suit, which accused him of making sexually explicit phone calls to Mackris, saying, "If I have to go down, I'm willing to do it," but apparently changed his mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 8, 2004 | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

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