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Heartbreakers, starring Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt, puts another variation on the revenge chick theme. Siggy plays a vampy mom who seduces wealthy bachelors into marriage; Love plays the slutty daughter who seduces the newly married husband, facilitating her mom's collection of a divorce settlement. The mother-daughter...
From the 1950s on, he was routinely compared to Vladimir Nabokov because he was fascinated by the uninnocent sexuality of young girls. How many times has one heard Balthus' familiar images of pubescent females, naked in bare rooms or stretched catlike in the firelight, called nymphets or Lolitas? For his...
Americans are not accustomed these days to thinking about the Enemy Within. Or the Enemy Without, for that matter. It seemed quaintly sinister to learn that a churchgoing FBI man, father of six, is alleged to have sold out to the Soviet Union, and, after the Soviet collapse, to Russia...
Ignorance about AIDS remains profound. But because of the funerals, southern Africans can't help seeing that something more systematic and sinister lurks out there. Every Saturday and often Sundays too, neighbors trudge to the cemeteries for costly burial rites for the young and the middle-aged who are suddenly...
It's a great David-and-Goliath story--humble hackers hoodwink sinister spooks --but the complexity of the subject matter makes Crypto a slow read: encryption algorithms, export regulations and copyright wrangles, all of it crawling with abbreviations (when PKP takes on the NSA over RSA vs. the DSA, don...