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...just don’t think it would work,” she says. “We’re basically saying it’s too far to go to class; it would ruin our program...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Ex-Rated’ Marks Dancers’ Return to Loeb | 10/18/2002 | See Source »

...that's the problem: no matter what they do, academics always ruin sex by refusing to stutter. They intellectualize it until you realize why they spend so much time alone "writing dissertations." Museums are designed to illuminate the inanimate: mummies, Renaissance paintings, Richard Nixon. Flash-freezing the ephemeral is too difficult. If you think too long about kissing, it starts to seem like a ridiculous impossibility. (It also means you're very, very lonely.) And, honestly, that's the problem: the Museum of Sex undermines the real purpose of museums - which is to pick up women. Coming up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having Sex, Museum-Style | 10/15/2002 | See Source »

Academics ruin sex. They analyze it, explain it, deconstruct it, and by the time they're done, you wish they had stuck to talking about Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. So when the Museum of Sex opened in Manhattan, I shouldn't have been surprised that it was heavy on the museum and light on the sex. Maybe if it were called the Museum of Erotic History, I wouldn't have been as disappointed. But when I heard about the Museum of Sex, my mind shot right past museum and straight to the sex part. I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having Sex, Museum-Style | 10/15/2002 | See Source »

...megahit Trading Spaces (where pairs of friends fix up, or ruin, each other's homes), the drama is, Do your friends really know you? Could you live their lives better than they do? And Trading Spaces' success has inspired a raft of shows that are as much about love as about louvers. Take HGTV's Designing for the Sexes, where spouses gamely spar over home projects, Mars-and-Venus style; one husband wants angular stones for the new fireplace because they're more "manly" than curvy river rocks. On Discovery's Surprise by Design, people race against the clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home TV: It Hits Us Where We Live | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...chain of collegiate craving. The cafeteria girl (Kate Bosworth) loves the scheming stud (James Van Der Beek), who loves the soulful virgin (Shannyn Sossamon), who loves the smug film student (Kip Pardue), while a gorgeous bisexual (Ian Somerhalder) is ready to have them all. Sex, drugs and rack 'n' ruin; pretty people doing nasty things to one another...honestly, what more could you want in a movie? --By Richard Corliss

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES: THE RULES OF ATTRACTION | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

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