Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie or the worst action-filled soft-porn film ever made. Caligula, the Man, tries to dominate his fellow Men, and Nature ends up aserting herself to resolve the ensuing chaos. Sex and violence are so intermingled here that the sex scenes aren't a turn-on and the graphic bits of violence induce fits of laughter instead of a quickening of the pulse. The only notable monologue in the movie is the bad-ass emperor's one-liner: "On your knees, wench, and show me what hath God wrought." Well, Man and not God wrought this turkey, which...
...stereo delivery men, who claimed to hail from Montreal, said they didn't know who had sent them to Cambridge. They said the benefactor had paid cash for the six-piece system, which included a direct-drive turntable, a Dolby cassette deck, a graphic equalizer, an AM-FM receiver and two 80-watt speakers...
Primarily, Question 3 amounts to a massive violation of the First Amendment. It would lead to an immeasurable wave of censorship. Moreover, as egregious as pornography often is, it cannot be defined, and therefore cannot be legislated against. The referendum defines pornography as the "graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and/or words." But we cannot condone the implications of that definition, particularly of the word "subordination." While the bill would allow for prosecution of pornographers who kidnap, rape and film women--and this is clearly a good motivation--it would also, presumably, subject to legal action museum...
...into effect a law that defines pornography as discrimination against women and permits anyone who feels damaged by it to sue in civil court. On a quick reading this might appeal to any of us who feel offended by pornography and who are horrified by the ever more graphic and violent images put forward by the multibillion dollar, and growing, pornography industry. However, if you read Proposition 3 more carefully, you will find its definition of pornography is excessively vague and open to idiosyncratic interpretations. Furthermore, it implicates in discriminatory practices anyone who engages in a wide variety of activities...
...proposed law defines pornography as "the graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and/or words." It would virtually ban all sexually explict material, giving local courts power to restrict the proliferation of material they deem pornographic, Dworkin said...