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...frustrations through rough, violent sex with the random people he finds, including Louis's dark-headed, punk roomate, Sophie. Of course, Sophie and Johnny get together within the first few minutes of the film, even before Louise gets home from work, Sophie ,without any sort of guidance in her vapid, drugfilled life, finds a beacon in Johnny and his deft tongue, both in and out of bed. Johnny sees her as another living being, only existing because some amoeba was able to evolve into a frog that crawled out of the water and eventually became a primate which...
That testimonial is echoed by many young fans in 241 million households planet-wide who tune in for the music and stay to watch "Free Your Mind" news features, interspersed between MTV'S main fodder of music videos and celebrity interviews. Often derided as a vapid, immature channel for rap-and- rock vidkids, MTV tackles serious problems in segments that range from three minutes to theme weekends. Promising viewers "free your mind and the rest will follow," the five international affiliates -- MTV Brasil, Asia, Japan, Europe and Latino -- cover issues like safe sex and the environment, once deemed too sensitive...
...main exhibit in the Spanish pavilion is a room-size sculpture, featuring an oversize bed frame, wire mesh and chairs, by Antoni Tapies. Tapies 30 years ago was a painter of great distinction, but on the evidence of this cumbersome and vapid work, he has no talent for sculpture; he is there because the Spanish fixedly believe he is the successor to Picasso and Miro -- a nationalist illusion. The British pavilion, which in previous Biennales walked away with the show -- Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin and the sculptor Tony Cragg -- contains a disappointing survey of recent work...
...team loses, we're damn well going to say why. We are not going to settle for bland, vapid stories that say" at least they gave it the old Crimson...
...invidious because it is written intellectually. Its arguments, however disturbing, are stated logically and convincingly; its unreasonable agenda is couched in reasonable terms. Inside Edge editors claim simply to write a magazine that guys would like to read. Even the most sexist Inside Edge copy is far too vapid to pass for intelligent discourse...