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...Cincinnati museum director Dennis Barrie less as a saint than a fish-out-of-SoHo aesthete. But the nuance is soon lost in a film that wants to be an agitprop documentary, interrupting its storyline with interviews of mostly pro-Mapplethorpe notables. The film isn't obligated to be neutral, but it's so bullying and one-sided that a viewer feels guilty for agreeing with it. Defending an artist who preferred aesthetics to righteousness, Dirty Pictures sadly advances exactly the opposite...
...fact, 55 percent of the violence involved clashes between "good" or "neutral" characters and "bad" characters...
...surprisingly, "good" or "neutral" characters were more likely to instigate what the researchers called "funny" violence, while "bad" characters were more likely to instigate "sinister" violence...
Instead of that first drivelous column idea, for my final message to underclassmen (or, in The Crimson's gender-neutral language, "half-pints"), I tried to get back to the core of my Harvard experience. On a sunny day, I sat out by the Charles with a beach towel and a cool drink and watched the crew boats go by. Then I thought: who am I kidding? Through my four years at Harvard I've never had time to sit by the river and relax: I've done as much sunbathing as a sightless mole. I've heard that...
...feminist really at fault--as I have implied--for patronizing an organization that denies equal status to women? Should not political commitment involve sacrifice in one's daily life? But where is the appropriate sacrifice too large? Perhaps at Harvard, where I have already lamented there are few neutral public spaces where students can go? Our political life is defined by the comically inconsistent private behavior of so many "activists," and the increasingly sanctimonious and hysterical nature of public discourse...