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...Koppel. Maybe you weren't prepared. But then how do you explain the movie? It was the same thing all over again: you pretending to masturbate on stage, and then being shocked and outraged when the Catholic Church dumped on you for this. We were subjected to an endless stream of banalities again: free speech, art, blah, blah, blah...
...Birkenstock dealerships, natural-food markets and the occasional bold bookseller who might risk putting a copy of Bound for Glory on the counter next to Vox, folk music -- both traditional and the highly modified and individualized form practiced in the '60s -- has tumbled from the pop culture jet stream and gone to earth somewhere in the deep woods of nostalgia...
Safely tucked away in a deep "pool" in the glacial stream, protected from currents and preserved by the frigid -6 degrees C temperature, the Iceman lay undisturbed for more than 53 centuries. And centuries more might have passed before he was discovered were it not for a foehn that last year delivered tons of North African desert sand to the Alpine ridges. "This is a common phenomenon," explains climatologist Dreiseitel, "but in 1991 it coincided with a winter that produced little snow, and the coating of sand increased the rate of melt on the high peaks." All over the Alps...
...example, a radiant image of a boy sipping from a shadowy stream of falling water is entitled "Sed Publica" (Public Thirst). The commentary gives some interesting information about ancient sacrifice rituals and the Aztec's conception of water as life source. But Bravo's provocative title refers to a contemporary socio-economic reality which the commentary ignores. Similarly, the series of female nudes titled "Xipe" are explained solely in reference to the ancient "flayed goddess" of the same name. Yet the headless images of bodies criss-crossed with jagged shadows and leaves bear a resemblence...
...most important goal for the 21st century is family planning for everyone. That is the environmental issue. You can plant a billion trees and clean up every stream, but it wonUt make a difference if we double the population in the next 20 years. Now scientists are trying to enable women to have babies when they're 80. Please don't make me more fertile...