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...VERY YOUNG GIVE OFFENSE BY displaying frontal lobes as unwrinkled as their rosy cheeks; and in his first novels, Jay McInerney, the very young author, wrote chapters that seemed a little too cute and a little too easy. Bright Lights, Big City tried hard for the "God, how that boy can write" award once owned by Scott Fitzgerald, but McInerney's next two books, Ransom and Story of My Life, had little to offer except boyishness and a good ear for dialogue. A few scenes of cocaine snorting, the names of a couple of trendy clubs, a little easy listening...
...Florida, Jacksonville Shipyards is appealing the January 1991 ruling by a federal judge that a welder named Lois Robinson was harassed by male co- workers who put up graphically sexual posters and calendars, some showing women being abused. Among the offensive materials was a poster with a frontal view of a nude woman and the imprinted words USDA CHOICE. One surprising supporter of the appeal: the American Civil Liberties Union, which also opposes the Massachusetts bill...
...within our computers, waiting to explode. We can't see them. We don't understand them. But they can make our lives hell. According to The Boston Globe's reassuring article on viruses Wednesday (soothingly titled "COMPUTER KILLERS"), Michelangelo will do to a hard drive what a high-speed frontal collision will do to a car. No wonder people were wigging out yesterday...
...sensible compromise -- to release Basic Instinct in both its original (NC-17) and moderated (R) versions -- is not allowed by the motion-picture association. The probable outcome is that like other films embroiled in ratings wrangles, Basic Instinct will be shown fig-leafed in the U.S. but fully frontal abroad and, later, on home video. In that scenario, the bluenoses and bean counters win; consenting adults and ambitious moviemakers lose. And once again a crucial question goes begging: if movies are allowed to make violence terrifying -- as in such acclaimed dramas as The Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear...
Several complex sexual differences emerged. Men with lower verbal IQs were more likely to have their language skills located toward the back of the brain. In a number of women, regardless of IQ, the naming ability was restricted to the frontal lobe. This disparity could help explain why strokes that affect the rear of the brain seem to be more devastating to men than to women...