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...just across the Laotian border. The team, code named Hadley, was supposed to gather intelligence on supply convoys traveling the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but within a day North Vietnamese soldiers began rounding up the commandos. An iron shackle was secured to Pham with a stake driven through the flesh of his leg, and he was taken north. Once in prison, he spent hours hanging upside down in the sun with his jaw held shut by a muzzle. Rats and cockroaches nibbled at the torn flesh on his leg as he spent his nights in a bare brick cell, unheated...
...slight young woman who was elected commander in chief of the students, and whose rallying cries rose above the protesters in 1989. This flesh-and-blood "Goddess of Democracy" escaped the square on June 4, just before the tanks rolled in. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed, and many wonder if the decision by Chai and other leaders not to retreat ultimately led to the bloodshed; she maintains its magnitude could never have been precicted. After hiding for 10 months, Chai eventually reached France (she's saving the details of her escape for a forthcoming autobiography), and was granted political asylum...
...Artist with a Rose Background), with its powerfully modeled head, "formed," as Rainer Maria Rilke wrote after he saw it at the 1907 Paris Salon, "as though by hammering from within." The figure gazes at you with that uniquely Cezannian conjuncture of wariness and authority, every molecule of its flesh and bone asserting its pictorial structure against the dissolution suggested by the lavish wet brushstrokes that represent the wallpaper pattern behind...
Cezanne's sublimation produces not flesh but a kind of architecture. Yet this architecture is incontrovertible. Its scale is increased by the overarching trees, which supply a Gothic vault, and by the high, cloud-laden sky. And the final effect is one of exhilaration at the sight of the old man in his last year of life winning from his turmoil an equilibrium that was truly classical, and yet hiding so little of the inner compulsions that drove its making...
...doesn't take long to realize that the common thread linking these series is not so much a preponderance of flesh, or even ludicrous dialogue, but the fact that the shows are meant to be expressions, however bizarrely executed, of female fantasy. This stands in sharp contrast to most porn, a genre in which it would usually be difficult to sell a film featuring a demure young woman who manages to unleash a cross-dresser's inner heterosexual (to cite an example from Strangers). While most of these series are produced by men, they aim--and succeed--at attracting...