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...disparity between the gentle realism of The Cooler and the grotesque brutality of Scary Movie, and the knowledge that the grosser film had received the softer ruling, spurred Bello to petition the MPAA for a ratings change - as she puts it, "to go in and fight for my pubic hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censuring the Movie Censors | 9/2/2006 | See Source »

...eight-page "photographic tone poem" by Ralph Hattersley Jr., called Black and White in Color: African-American guy, European-American gal, both nude. They link hands; they kiss, in silhouette; and in the last shot they press against each other. The mood is chaste and a little solemn; no pubic parts go public. Yet this was the feature that got Eros hauled into court. Several commentators wondered at the time, and I do now, whether the essay would have been deemed so objectionable if the two people had been of the same color - and whether the furor was as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Favorite Pornographer | 7/15/2006 | See Source »

...Division of Elections, the League's Florida branch acknowledged that it had recently ceased efforts to register voters because of what it calls the law's draconian fines against organizations (other than political parties) for submitting forms late. The League of Women Voters of Florida joined several other pubic interest and labor groups, including the Florida AFL-CIO, in challenging the constitutionality of the law, which went into effect Jan. 1. They are asking the U.S. District Court to immediately suspend the fines - which the groups say could bankrupt their voter registration budgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Election Lawsuit in Florida | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

...Maybe it's because I'm a southerner, but I'm interested in flawed characters. She's not always going to make the right decision; she makes mistakes sometimes. I think that's far more fascinating in literature than some kind of Superwoman, who goes around and plucks a pubic hair from a pillow, and says 'Ah, our offender is a right-handed Caucasian with a harelip.' She's never going to do that kind of thing. She's always going to be kind of in the background of the investigation, and she's Jeffrey's sounding board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Between the Lines With Karin Slaughter | 10/4/2005 | See Source »

...Eugenics has transformed from the pubic enterprise it had been during the first half of the century to a private enterprise controlled by the self-interest of parents...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shopping for Sperm: Nobel Prizes Wanted | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

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