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While it is fine if the "sight of a big-busted blonde tickles [Oppenheim's] fancy," it is necessary that he recognize that by subscribing to an idea of beauty, he is sending a message to females that to be accepted, to be recipients of the male gaze, they must conform to the images that hang on his wall. JENNIFER C. NASH '01 March...
...voluntary censorship on the part of bookstores--if you take my opinion of Hamilton's work to its logical conclusion. The Age of Innocence is really something, though: page after page of pubescent girls in poses reminiscent of those in a Playboy layout circa 1975. The camera's gaze is solemn, the lens gauzy, the light that of a perpetual late afternoon. Half-formed breasts are bared, fingers are coyly sucked, panties pulled at, genitalia caught artfully winking out of bathing suits. In order to remind us that this is art and not, say, a file on the hard drive...
...magazine's epic voice, it expressed, at its best, a disciplined, moral understanding of history, an adult's steady gaze. In a brief introduction to the Victory section in the issue of Aug. 20, 1945, for example, TIME, in contemplating Hiroshima and Nagasaki, said this: "With the controlled splitting of the atom, humanity, already profoundly perplexed and disunified, was brought inescapably into a new age. The race had been won; the weapon had been used by those on whom civilization could best hope to depend; but the demonstration of power against living creatures created a bottomless wound in the living...
...camera had the run of the city; it peered and pried everywhere, and its somewhat watery gaze was often unflattering. Good-looking women turned into witches and dapper men became unshaven bums. Under TV's merciless, close-up stare, the demagogues and players-to-the-gallery did not always succeed in looking like statesmen. Besides exposing the politicians' worst facial expressions, the camera caught occasional telltale traces of boredom, insincerity and petulance...
...mags, rents B-minus films, immerses himself in the detritus of Bostockiana. To your eyes Ronnie might seem a bland dreamboat, but that is part of the fun in this delicious comedy. And part of the truth: for it is a mark of obsession that it fixes its gaze on an object whose appeal is inexplicable...