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...itself. Michael Spiccia’s video for the Jet single “Rip It Up” combined video and animation to little effect. Cut-and-paste style text danced across the screen, pencil sketches of buxom women frantically erased themselves: the whole thing looked like a vulgar high schooler’s notebook collage. In fact, there’s a whole “Mirrorball” program devoted to animation. While the technique can signify everything from gothic emoting—The Horrors’ “She is the New Thing?...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Putting MTV in the MFA | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...Gazali insists that his new show is mindful of societal norms. "We won't be vulgar and have to keep Indonesian culture in mind," he says. "But we won't shy away from dealing with hypocrisy when we see it." But more than adroit scriptwriting, it is reformasi - the popularly cherished climate of political and social liberalization that has developed since Suharto's fall in 1998 - that has protected the show from interference. Indeed, Dreaming Republic has emerged as one of the great triumphs of reformasi. "The show really is one of the best examples of democracy in action," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dream Team | 1/2/2008 | See Source »

...stars, musicians and even reality TV programs everyone else in France does: the disdain that the average French person frequently expresses for the average French person. Indeed, the very term "français moyen" literally means "average French person", but is usually used to refer to the kind of vulgar, uncultured and intellectually lazy person that "white trash" and "chav" designates in the U.S. and U.K. And that's an image that Sarkozy detractors predict will return to haunt him in the public mind over time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy's 'Bling-Bling' Presidency | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...Justice and other judges. I want to tell them that the entire nation stands by them. We will not rest until all these judges are restored to their pre-November 3 positions." The crowd cheered, and pelted a nearby poster of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf with their shoes - a vulgar insult in Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Over Principle in Pakistan | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...convey this message, Dines did a bit of bombarding herself, presenting a slideshow chock-full of the most vulgar kinds of pornographic images and spitting the word “fuck” several dozen times (this was, no doubt, to show she was no prude). A major theme of the evening: Pornography has invaded our culture to such an extent that even a woman’s behavior is altered by it. Porn causes a woman to feel immense pressure to conform to an unattainable standard of beauty and sex appeal. Dines blames everything from hard-core pornography...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: The Politics of Porn | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

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