Word: leashes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tangled nudes, the hideous hoods, the dangling wires and the dog leash, perhaps the single most shocking thing about the images from Abu Ghraib prison is the woman in so many of the pictures: smiling broadly or giving a thumbs up or just standing casually in the demented scene as if posing in a college dorm. It's the all-American face of Private First Class Lynndie England. The girl next door, a Jessica Lynch gone wrong...
...hands?", I could not bring myself to explain that this is designed to maim a man's soul: in a culture that sanctifies masculine pride and sexual privacy, you strip him and make him masturbate in front of a mocking female captor, or put him on a leash or pretend you are going to electrocute him. But I did have to explain that the bad guys--this time--were seven U.S. soldiers, of whom it might be said that seldom has such harm been done to so many...
...tell my clients, If you want to go down the aisle in a lime green wedding dress with a dog on a leash to Billy Idol's White Wedding and you're not offending anyone, then go ahead and do it," says wedding planner Colin Cowie...
Aristide is certainly no saint. Unable to afford a real security force, he gave too long a leash to the armed ‘thugs’ who acted in his name. And there is reason to suspect that his government has violated civil liberties and perhaps engaged in some minor corruption. But these oft-voiced criticisms miss the point. Aristide was Haiti’s first democratically elected president, and the U.S. is now complicit in his overthrow by a motley rebel force led by documented human rights abusers...
...Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? scandal finished reality TV and the Sept. 11 attacks killed irony. Betting against the transgressiveness of pop culture is like shorting the market: you may be right for a period, but over time you will lose. Even if the FCC does leash the big networks meaningfully--a long shot--viewers remain free to go to cable. "It's acceptable for Tiger Woods to curse on ESPN," notes NBC Entertainment president Jeff Zucker, "but not on NBC at the same golf tournament." If the viewers go, the ratings pressures will return. And with them? Bring...