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...collective sorrow and guilt, two genres were spawned. In the Godzilla movies, atomic blasts awaken a prehistoric monster (and he still hasn't gone back to sleep; the series continues today). There were also more serious parables of doomed romance, in which an unlikely couple represents the puniness of mankind in the smirking face of Armageddon. The glistening sand on the skin of the lovers in Hiroshima mon amour and Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes are a kind of atomic glaze - an artistic rendering of the nuclear dusting of those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the American bombings...
...Leather Report "Man's Inhumanity to Man From sandal to saddle to bucket seat, the musky scent of leather has been the olfactory accompaniment to mankind's inexorable march of progress. Indeed, our willingness to crawl into another animal's skin is precisely one of the traits that separates us from those same beasts. Yet forced by the heat and humidity to shed our cowhides and lambskin loincloths during hotter weather, it's no wonder we are stripped of a little humanity and civilization every Memorial Day. The summertime German invasion of Poland, the Watergate break-in and Woodstock...
Take the Egyptian god Osiris. He married his sister Isis, was made King of Mankind, and then became the target of his brother Set’s jealousy. Set dismembered Osiris and scattered the pieces of his body all over Egypt. Isis was distraught and sought to save her husband, so she scoured the country to find the pieces of her husband’s body. She found each part and bound them together, creating the first mummy, and bringing Osiris back to life to rule as the King of the Dead...
...important not only as a memorial to those who died but also as a warning sign of the fate of humanity and the true power of mankind," he said...
...cemented for centuries the uniquely Chinese concept that spiritual fulfillment demands good sex - and lots of it. The I Ching named the yin and yang, that most essential description of male and female, but Taoism insisted that yin and yang existed within each person - probably mankind's earliest argument for pansexuality...