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...hardcore sex movies considered themselves lucky to exhibit their wares legally, let alone have their real names on them. All "Gerard" had was a cute idea for a porno comedy, and a leading lady with a special talent. He also wanted to change the movie's title, from The Sword Swallower. The producer objected that no one would understand the new title. "Don't worry," the director replied. "Deep Throat will become a household word...

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

...What's the biggest misconception Americans have of China? Gloria Lepp, Portland, Ore. Americans still think that people in China are peasantlike and backwards. The other stereotypes are the sword-fighting films, dragon ladies, and triads from Hong Kong. That's why for me it's so important to make movies about the real people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Wayne Wang | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...researchers have been awarded Ig Nobels for the iconic pink yard flamingo and for calculating the exact odds Mikhail Gorbachev is the anti-Christ. This year, the event continued its tradition of zany humor. The ceremony opened with an introduction by past winner Dan Meyer, who promptly swallowed a sword onstage. Meyer won his Ig Nobel for studying sword swallowing and its effects. Later, a parade of “Ignitaries” entered the theater, and a number of student delegations were recognized by standing and spinning three times. Throughout the event, attendees sent a deluge of paper airplanes...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ig Nobel Inspires Zany Fun | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...countries like Iran. For starters, Syria is ruled by a besieged and insecure minority, the Alawites, a heterodox-Shi'ite ethnic minority. About 12% of Syria's population, the Alawites are looked at by extremist Sunni Muslims as heretics, fallen-away Muslims, usurpers who should be put to the sword. In the late '70s and early '80s, the Sunni extremists came close to getting their way. During a February 1982 Muslim Brotherhood insurrection in Hama, Syria's third largest city, Hafez al-Assad felt compelled to flatten it in order to stay in power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Syria Will Keep Provoking Israel | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...wild man image, as you put it, of the Saracen with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Bernard Lewis on Islam's Crisis | 9/20/2008 | See Source »

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