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...suspense, luring readers with short attention spans to forge onward. The level of violence ranges from the implied to the horrific, and the bloodier bits are sometimes mitigated by context: it was all a dream, the demonic villain got what was coming to him, etc. Explicit sex is largely forbidden...
...there will be no running water safe to drink for an additional three weeks or so. Meanwhile, residents seeking water for any purpose last week had to line up for supplies trucked in from outside and dispensed at 100 different locations (limit: 2 gal. to a customer); they were forbidden to enter office buildings because sprinkler systems could not protect them from fire. Downtown at times looked like a city under military occupation: deserted except for National Guardsmen who patrolled the streets while helicopters buzzed overhead. President Clinton, who toured flooded areas many times during his 12 years as Governor...
Other events have split the Penn campus. In 1988 Hackney defended a campus visit by hatemongering Louis Farrakhan. In April, when gay advocates chalked sexually explicit and antireligious phrases on the main campus sidewalk, maintenance workers were forbidden to wash off the graffiti in the interest of gay free speech...
...movie screen is, among other things, a big lighted window. And we, watching in the dark, are, among other things, voyeurs, always hoping to see forbidden sights. Sliver's vulgar lure is that we will be allowed to peep at Sharon Stone in various stages of undress, in a variety of compromising positions. Its somewhat more interesting premise is that she is a projection of our watching selves, a respectable Manhattan publishing-house editor named Carly Norris, who is herself drawn into voyeurism. In other words, we are invited to watch a watcher as she learns to like watching...
...world-class artist who gives his films (Red Sorghum, Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern) heartbreak and visual grandeur. But people do not see Zhang's films so much as they read them, like fortune cookies, for signs and omens about the interior life of a forbidden country. Forbidden to him as well: the Chinese authorities have withheld release of some of his films. And yet Zhang still works in his homeland, against all odds and with great grace. Just like the heroine of his spare new film parable...