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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...However, to think that AFARM's actions aren't somewhat amusing shows a complete lack of a sense of humor. I think that is quite obvious in the way Lat scrutinizes AFARM. He thinks naming their official positions after character in the Marquis de Sad's 120 Days of Sodom is "highly offensive." But is Lat any better after his pirates an obscure quote from the movie "Ferris, Bueller's Day Off," changing it to become his choice for AFARM's new motto: "We fight morality with lost of pluck, 'cause we're some students who like to..." To utilize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Attack on AFARM is Off Base | 2/19/1994 | See Source »

...their continuing (and futile) effort to be irreverent and vaguely humorous, the members of AFARM took the names of their "leadership" positions from the Marquis de Sade's novel 120 Years of Sodom. (How trendy, how sophisticated, how culturally elite...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: The Absence of Rational Minds | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...four positions in the organization--archbishop, count, judge and duchess--are taken from the Marquis de Sade's novel 120 Years of Sodom. But AFARM is a collective group, and anyone is welcome to join...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Battling Moralism Through Satire and `Pluck' | 12/15/1993 | See Source »

These fledgling magazine publishers are kids trying to act cool--not masterminds propagating evil on the scale of Sodom and Gomorrah. And if the good-natured guys in Eliot would never dream of doing what they print as "entertainment," maybe folks outside the Ivory Tower will take Inside Edge with a pillar of salt...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Not Thinking. Just Kidding. | 6/9/1993 | See Source »

...course, in adapting Sade's work for film, director Henri Xhonneux faces an obvious dilemma: how can one possibly depict the contents of a book like 120 Days of Sodom without the result being banned in every country on the globe? Xhonneux's solution is to hide his actors under elaborate animatronic masks not unlike those used in Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal." No human faces appear in the film. And though Miss Piggy wasn't above making a few amorous overtures to Kermit, she surely never dreamed of carrying on as the pigs, dogs and cows of "Marquis...

Author: By John Aboud, | Title: Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Sadomasochistic Fleas Do It | 2/11/1993 | See Source »

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