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...film has its share of scabrous banter -- recombinant four-letter words galore -- but the conceit of Clerks is that foul-mouthed Jersey louts have elaborate vocabularies and pensive personalities. When Randal isn't shocking the frail with a list of porn-movie titles, he is offering such bartender wisdom to Dante as this: "That seems to be the leitmotiv of your life, ever backing down." Insults cascade into insights; obscenity snowballs into philosophy. Keeping the mind alert and the tongue sharp -- for the eloquent jerks in Clerks, that's more than a defense mechanism. It's a vocation...
...always the film shows the hues of its 1978 setting with music that toes the line between porn and disco. The dress and wigs and expressions will astound, entertain and horrify you all at the same time...
...PORN PIRATES AND SOFTWARE SMUGGLERS...
...discovery of a hard-core-pornography cache at one of three U.S. weapons labs exposed the Internet's steamy underside but mostly drew yawns from experienced Net users. Tens of thousands of illicit computer-porn sites now litter the system; and the cache, uncovered by the Los Angeles Times at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, near San Francisco, so far appears to have been an inside job, started by someone within...
...some cases, we've uncovered the chemistry of personality by changing it. Consider the architect who takes Prozac for depression and finds that not only are his symptoms gone, but so is a lifelong passion for hardcore porn. "The medication redefined what was essential and what was contingent about his own personality," writes his psychiatrist Peter Kramer in Listening to Prozac. Or consider the hyperactive child who takes Ritalin and discovers that now other kids will play with him. Social acceptance in a pill. Shyness, too, may succumb to a chemical cure. Research suggests that 1 in 5 babies...