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Recently, a friend of mine succinctly explained the difference between pornography and erotica: Lowbrows beat off to pornography. High-brows beat off to erotica. With the release of her album, Erotica, and her much-hyped coffee table pornography book, Sex, Madonna demonstrates just how synonymous the two terms really...
...latest musical incarnation, Madonna is Dita, the dominatrix persona and sex hostess of both Sex and Erotica. She intones over thumpy house beats on most of the album, which should keep DJ's mixing and remixing for months. In the title track Dita asks, "If I take you from behind/Push myself into your mind/When you least expect it/Will you try and reject it." The naughty little form/context twist is that at standard club volume, the fat bass line under this song does physically invade your body. Other audio tricks abound. "Bye Bye Baby," for instance, whips Madonna's voice into...
...City Council voted this week to censure Harvard Square's HMV Music Superstore for a planned Madonna promotion it termed insensitive...
Responding to an article in The Boston Globe, the council condemned a planned promotion at HMV which would have placed Madonna's new book, Sex, on a makeshift altar, where for a $3 donation to AIDS research, customers over 18 could look through the book. People dressed as nuns and priests would have collected the donations...
...Continent's southern flank, villages on the Aegean islands were busily trading olive oil, wine and pottery with the Greek mainland and Crete. In Crete fashionable women sported ankle-length dresses, with necklines low enough to make Madonna blush. (The art of weaving originated more than a millennium earlier.) And in the Balkans metallurgists were hard at work crafting elaborate tools of lead, copper and iron and spectacular ornaments of gold...