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However, Fuentes' distate for Hollywood is a pretext for a larger commentary on the destructive devices of the United States as a whole. Fuentes always makes the distinction between the world of the "gringos" and his own, that of Mexico: "I looked at the sleeping Diana. She lived in the world of instantaneous gratification... A Mexican, no matter how much he travels the world, is anchored in a society of need." Fueled by a life of gratification, North Americans have an irrational but insatiable desire for upward mobility. According to Fuentes, they never experienced an equivalent of the Middle Ages...
...that tipped the balance was that of the 19th accuser, which came to light last week. The woman was only 17 years old and a former intern in his Washington office when the alleged incident occurred. Knowing her parents were away, Packwood showed up at her home on the pretext of delivering a letter of recommendation for her college application. As she has recalled, he then "laid a juicy kiss on my lips. I could feel the tongue coming...
...wolfskin with a lily in her hand (that floral emblem of the Aesthetic Movement), was declared to be a bride the night after; or a fallen ex-maiden; or a victim of mesmerism--anything, except what she was, a model posing in Whistler's studio to give him a pretext to paint shades of white with extreme virtuosity and subtlety. The story was that there was no story; it was Whistler's first sally against the narrative tradition in English art, though by no means the last...
...Japanese government did not immediately name a perpetrator. But within days, under another pretext, it responded with its morning raid on 25 branches of a heretofore obscure sect called Aum Shinrikyo, which translates as Aum Supreme Truth. The sect, which started as a yoga school, focuses on the apocalypse to come-perhaps as soon as 1997. Its members insist it merely practices a form of Buddhism; but in reality it is a cult revolving around a long-haired, charismatic mystic, Shoko Asahara, a magnetic misfit who preaches that government efforts to obliterate his movement will coincide with the beginning...
...network, that extraordinary scene between Lavin and Kevin will have been trimmed, as will a few others. Apparently, U.S. viewers lack the sophistication of their northern neighbors. The cutting of these scenes is nearly the artistic equivalent of Lavin's crimes. It is abuse under the pretext of protecting sensitive souls...