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...Story of Joanna (1975). But by then, porno was an industry, and it relied less on artistic pretension than on grinding out product. In the next 20 years, Damiano put his name on another three dozen or so hardcore movies, none of which made much of an impact. Like silent-film director D.W. Griffith in the talkie era, Damiano was a pioneer whom new trends left behind. According to the local News-Press, he "lived out his final years in Fort Myers quietly, enjoying theater, attending art openings, appearing at charitable events and reveling, especially, in the accomplishments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porn's Pied Piper: Deep Throat Director Dies | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

Politicians have been calling their voters the salt of the earth--and delegitimizing the other guy's--since Richard Nixon's Silent Majority and before. But now they're abetted by a political press that dotes on a nostalgic definition of realness that bears ever less relation to today's America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Coverage, and the 'Real' Issue | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...trying to evoke a certain mood I’ll put on something like Eric Dolphy or Erik Satie. I think film is an interesting cousin to comics—and it’s dangerous to think of comics as storyboards—but inevitably some kinds of silent movie story-telling, noir film and non-narrative film that were beginning to be exposed during the period of the “Breakdowns” stuff all had a major impact on how I was thinking. THC: The title of your most recent publications is “Breakdowns...

Author: By Ama R. Francis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Art Spiegelman: ‘Young %@&*!’ | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...against President Bush, you should have run four years ago.” Even though Obama has demonstrated an aptitude to think on his feet, he simply did not have a comeback for this zinger. It is worth noting that the studio audience, which was supposed to remain absolutely silent, exclaimed and gasped at the line. Those watching could even see a look of glory in McCain’s eyes—the look a major league batter gets when he knows by the feel of the baseball hitting the bat that he just hit a home...

Author: By George Hayward | Title: Presidentiality | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...poverty by 2015. The rally’s keynote speaker, Harvard Kennedy School student Hyoung-Joon Lim, spoke about his personal experiences in developing countries and compared worldwide hunger to the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed an estimated 225,000 people in 2004. “Hunger is a silent tsunami,” Lim said. “[Every] three days, the same number of people who died in the tsunami are dying from hunger.” Lim highlighted the obstacles to achieving the other Millennium Development goals—which include targets for social indicators like gender...

Author: By Courtney P Yadoo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Gather to Act Against Poverty | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

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