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...accused of stabbing a man to death last week had told a girlfriend that he identified with the killers in the movie. The news report, said Dole, should send "shivers down the spines of all Americans." Especially those, he said, who have criticized his demands that Hollywood refrain from graphic sex and excessive violence in the entertainment it produces...
...Simpson double-murder trial got down to the stomach-wrenching details of the crime itself. The prosecution introduced graphic autopsy pictures of the victims, as the county coroner described in meticulous detail how the wounds and brutal knife gashes were inflicted. In a familiar and increasingly troubling development, two more jurors were replaced; only two alternates remain...
Count on it to keep coming back. The violent and raunchy streak in civilization runs deep and long into the past. More teenage boys might be attracted to the classics if they knew about Homer's graphic descriptions of spear points ripping through flesh in The Iliad or the quarts of stage blood needed for any production of Titus Andronicus. As for sex, the lewd posturings in some paintings of Hieronymous Bosch would be rated NC-17 if they showed up at the multiplex...
...about toxic culture, a media maven is led to wonder: Has Bob Dole ever read his kids a fairy tale? Or sung a nursery rhyme? Or seen a classic Disney cartoon? In Hansel and Gretel, Jack and Jill, Bambi and Dumbo, the obsessive themes are death and dismemberment. These graphic horror stories tell toddlers that life is a dark forest where parents get killed and kids get eaten. As purveyors of Dole's "nightmares of depravity," Warner Bros. ain't a patch on the Grimm Bros...
...setback for the O.J. Simpson defense team, Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecution can introduce into evidence more than 40 graphic autopsy and crime-scene photos of the two slashed victims, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Judge Ito said the probative value of the "horrible" photos outweighed any prejudicial impact they might have. Most of the week's testimony involved further -- frequently tedious -- wrangling over the prosecution's blood evidence...