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...recently sponsored the 'World's Loudest Stadium Roar' at a game featuring the Patriots and Broncos," he said. "The noise level was displayed on the stadium's big screen. And we reached 128 decibels...

Author: By Jonathan D. Newton, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Guinness Hosts Tea Party For World Record | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...pedophilia--why, any erotic website worth its salt promises links to images of the "barely legal," "young teen sluts," and all the rest. Today, Nabokov's Humbert would need not be a tragic figure; instead, he could have spent his years ensconced in front of a glowing computer screen, with a thousand Lolitas for his delectation...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: The Pornographic Revolution | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...house without me really knowing what's going on. My daughter doesn't have a PlayStation at the moment. She is desperate for one. Particularly with younger children, I don't like the idea that they're going to be blowing people up, these little humanoids on the screen, with no thought of what this really means. And doing that for points. I think there is a vast difference between that and seeing a character you care about dying in a book, experiencing those emotions, working through things that we all have to face at some point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Good Scare | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...made in 1966, Ono invited friends to drop their pants and walk in place while she filmed the piston motions of their bare behinds. On the soundtrack you hear their nervous chatter as the rear ends--plump or scrawny, smooth or furry--rise and dip and bunch up on-screen. The point that we're all human has been made before, but not usually with tongue so literally in cheek. Four years later, she made Fly, in which, for 25 minutes, what appears to be a single housefly (actually there were several) is photographed at close range navigating the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Her Own Image | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...Manhattan and Hollywood, moguls might have preferred concentrating on the World Series, now that the dispute - between the producers of TV spots and two unions, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) - was resolved with major concessions on both sides. But the settling of Strike One simply filled folks with anxious thoughts of Strike Two and Strike Three. In a few months, contracts will expire that link actors and writers to the movie studios and TV networks. If either employee group walks, entertainment could take a billion-dollar whack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strike Won? Strike Two and Three | 10/28/2000 | See Source »

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