Word: sexualize
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While some may think about sex every six seconds, Harvard College’s administrators certainly don’t. A recently released report that gave 139 colleges each a “Sexual Health Report Card” gave Harvard only a 3.2 out of a possible 4.0. The report—which was sponsored by the makers of Trojan condoms and carried out by Sperling’s BestPlaces—graded schools on the availability and quality of sexual health resources on campus. The report evaluated the school in eleven categories—including web site, lecture...
...APRIL M. VAN BURENCONTRIBUTING WRITERYou know that moment in a movie, a play, or a TV show where the sexual tension between the two main characters finally explodes in a tumult of fiery passion? The defining moment where a pair of lovers finally embrace and let their feelings take physical form? The quintessential “first kiss” scene? This typical romantic fanfare doesn’t find a place in the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of “Stop Kiss.” Though the title might lead an audience to assume...
Let’s leave aside the echoes of eugenics, the race issues that are inextricably bound up with class here, and LaBruzzo’s arrant disregard for less dramatic measures, such as improving sexual education and access to contraceptives. Forget for a moment that the number of Louisiana welfare recipients has plummeted to four percent of its size since 1990. More alarmingly than all this is the popular response which LaBruzzo’s proposal has received...
...physical and moral sense—and as a result becomes the movie’s heroine. But as both the physical and social conditions of the building quickly deteriorate, anarchy ensues, and the criminals who take control force the others to commit sickening acts of physical and sexual violence for food. Throughout the second half of the film, set primarily in the disgusting medical facilities, an ambivalent tone that alternates between seriousness and playfulness prevails, contributing greatly to the film’s diminishing power. At one point, after the government has completely abandoned the blind, a group...
...visual likeness to the filmmaker, which seemed to me spot on. It wasn’t until I reprised the trailer with sound that I realized that it was a not-so-subtle conservative “spoof” on liberal ideas that featured racial, religious, and sexual stereotypes and unabated nationalistic symbolism.That viewing got me thinking about what went into conservative humor, who is considered its audience, and how it differs from a lefty approach to comedy.You probably know writer/director David Zucker best for making “Airplane!” and the “Naked...