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Advocates of bringing porn into the classroom insist that studying porn without watching it misses the point. Kipnis screens Saló or 120 Days of Sodom, by the Italian avant-garde filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, in her obscenity class. The film, updated from the novel by the Marquis de Sade, is set in fascist Italy and depicts a tribunal of powerful men and their sexual torture of teenagers. She says students who had previously espoused staunchly liberal views about freedom of expression often find themselves disgusted and horrified by what they see. "University students are often too cool...
...revolutionary approach to art history. This method, which has since been adopted by other institutions in the same realm of academia, “uses the scientific method to study art, giving you a one-on-one encounter with what you’re studying,” says Paolo J. A. Yap ’07.This richness of history—and a degree of apprehension about its potential disintegration—has generated concerns from students about the redesign of the Quincy Street building. Jaffe says it would be “a great shame?...
...Dude, is this the most James Bond thing you’ve ever done?” MacNiven asked Averell after landing on a Sao Paolo rooftop in a helicopter...
...Great Britain does not apply to Greece." The old law-school adage holds that hard cases make bad law, and when a country finds certain words upsetting enough to ban them, all the cases are hard. In December, breaking a postwar statute still on the books, Italian soccer player Paolo Di Canio gave his fans at Lazio a fascist salute. He was disqualified for a game and fined €10,000 - but not prosecuted. On the other hand, a prosecutor secured a court order last year shutting a website that concocted a photomontage of Pope Benedict XVI in a Nazi...
...Seta is reviving his designs. An American who settled in Italy, ?the gardener of fashion? was famous for splashing wild-colored peonies, anemones and roses all over his prints. Milan insiders like Angela Missoni and Lawrence Steele have been collecting vintage Scott, and now the design duo Paolo Battaglia and Antonio Ponte has culled from the archives eight of Scott's iconic prints?from the '50s through the early '70s?to reinvent the label in a ready-to-wear collection focused on fitted, slim, feminine silhouettes. The line features bustier dresses (a Scott signature), billowy tunics, safari jackets, blossoming...