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...raise important questions about our societal perceptions of sex.Regardless, in undertaking the expression, Shvarts has tapped into the genre of sensationalist artwork. In this New Haven affair, more significant than this young artist’s abusive bodily activities, or the possibility that she is a morally bankrupt person, or the potential for all sorts of newfangled dead baby jokes is the question of why anyone would even begin to take this girl seriously. Over the past two weeks, the Aliza Shvarts story has been picked up by a number of national media outlets. This coverage tends to presume that...
...Benton has approached both his high and low points as learning experiences. “Survival is about adaptation, not who you kill off,” he said. That, of course, applies to life and not films. As far as films go, Benton still has at least one person he’d like to take down. “I’d to anything to make a James Bond movie,” Benton said. “He would trip and die in the first scene, and then Miss Moneypenny would be left to clean everything...
...devoted to stop the slaughter of animals, in vitro meat has obvious appeal. Despite efforts from activists, meat consumption continues to grow at home and abroad. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reported that from 1970 to 2005 US meat consumption increased 12.3 percent to 200 lbs per person per year. The U.N. similarly predicts that global meat consumption will double by 2050. To any observer, the prospect of ridding the population of carnivores appears rather bleak. Therefore, PETA has decided to follow a time-honored path: if you can’t beat them, co-opt them...
...history, plunging readers into the psyche of their sharp, cruel, solipsistic, and utterly absorbing father, and slowly pulling an abandoned son—the embittered, talented, consummately Russian Arkady—into the familial constellation. Docx has a stunning talent for communicating the essence of a person, group, or place in a single brushstroke that’s incisive, sometimes strange, and always evocative. One reads, for instance, of women in a posh St. Petersburg café who “hold their mugs of coffee the wrong way round and never by the handles, the greater to emphasize their...
...nearly twice as big and even more political - and over which Howard Dean will hold relatively little power. Imagine that: after a year of record-shattering turnout, the party's nominee could be chosen in a smoke-filled room - in July. If it comes to that, at least one person will be smiling: John McCain...