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...publishing quality. It's the splendid arrogance of Sex that really sets it apart. By publishing slick photo sex for mass consumption, Madonna, the promoter, makes a bid for America's fantasy life on an unprecedented scale. She has pushed her image as a mass media sex object to its logical extreme. This is porn-shop feminism in full bloom...
...does it feel to be not just an object, buta problematic object?" he queried...
Rusty, as they called him, fell in love as a kid and never snapped out of it. The object of his obsession was radio. "I was jealous of the morning guy, who seemed to be having a lot of fun," he recalls, "while I was dreading getting ready for school every day. It's just that simple." After his sophomore year he abandoned football and debating and got a job at a local radio station. He never studied voice or diction, and during a stint at Southeast Missouri State University he flunked Speech 101, because he did not outline...
Through it all, the object of this desire and celebrity has remained mute, though his very appearance on the scene has spoken volumes. He is known as the Iceman, a Stone Age wanderer found one year ago remarkably preserved in the melting Similaun glacier high in the Alps. His discovery has already upset some long-held notions about the late Stone Age, chilled relations between Austria and Italy -- near whose border he was found -- and stimulated tourism and commerce. His age, established by radiocarbon dating as approximately 5,300 years, makes him by far the most ancient human being ever...
...century. Yet the Aborigines were ingeniously adapted to their environment, and around Iceman's time they took two important steps forward. The first was the semidomestication of dingoes, wild dogs introduced from Asia and employed mostly as social companions. Archaeologist Josephine Flood believes that the dogs served as an object of affection and a child substitute in a society that killed babies it could not afford to feed (the dogs foraged for themselves; they were probably also used for hunting). The second, and more profound, breakthrough: for the first time, Australian Aborigines mounted stone points onto shafts to form spears...