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...continuing series on books no one outside the media is reading ("In Defense of Irony," TIME, Oct. 4, 1999, p. 42), I want to say that almost all the parts of Stiffed I read are totally stupid. The main exception is on page 649 in the bibliography ("Joel Stein, 'Porn Goes Mainstream,'" TIME, Sept. 7, 1998, p. 54). I recommend buying the book just for that page...
...African Mary (Ofili is of Nigerian descent) is plausible, but there is no real depth, no great feeling in the line. You might pass right by were it not for Ofili's strategy to shove the voltage up by adorning it with a pattern of cutouts from porn mags of women's crotches and then adding to the rhythm of the work with clumps of elephant dung. Interpretations reach too glibly for the symbolism of this Virgin in a cloud of sex parts as an emblem of the sacred's overcoming the profane, of the elephant manure as an African...
...male model boyfriend, who is annoyed by Marie's pleas for more sex and wishes she would just go to sleep instead of trying to take off his shorts. After one fruitless night, the sex-starved Marie sneaks off to a bar and picks up Paolo, played by Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi. They like each other; the camera likes their bodies. He scores and she scores. End of affair...
...reason. New York mayor Rudy "It's not art if I can do it" Guiliani has withdrawn funding from the Brooklyn Museum of Art exhibit "Sensation" because he's offended by a portrait of the Virgin Mary stained with elephant dung and surrounded by a collage of fragments from porn magazines. The First Amendment isn't as important as the Mayor's attempts to impress Catholic voters and dictate what art ought to look like...
...first, according to the FTC, the perpetrators replicated hundreds of legitimate websites, ranging from the Japanese Friendship Garden to the Harvard Law Review. By changing a single line of hidden software code, the culprits then ensured that any visitor calling up these pages would automatically be shunted to their porn site. Once there, the visitors often could not leave: "mousetrapped," with their computers' "back" and "close" commands disabled. Users were thus caught in what the FTC called "an unavoidable, seemingly endless loop" of pornography. Motive for the scam: to boost the number of visits to the porn site--and thus...