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...through a radical three-week boot camp that makes for high drama. (Because really, what better motivation to eat well than watching a kid throw up rice and bok choy?) The beauty of Honey is that it wraps its voyeuristic fatsploitation in sanctimony. Dr. Hark is a classic media moralist in the tradition of Judge Judy and Dr. Laura--curt and no nonsense. (Could Dickens have come up with a better name for a TV scold than Dr. Hark?) After a few minutes of her lecturing--"They are on a downward spiral toward disaster!"--I was ready...
...Middle East exchange their wartime pictures—a snapshot of their uniformed friends or a macabre still of war casualties—for free access to pornography. Converting their art into the currency of eroticism, these soldiers are fueling a new industry and creating a cult of warnography.A moralist in his own mind, the site’s creator and administrator, Chris Wilson, congratulated himself in an article published last week by the Online Journalism Review (OJR). The OJR profiles Wilson as an interesting altruist; the report describes how, after its launch in 2004, the site became popular with...
...others, and is on the whole a bit quiet and constrained to energize a melodrama nearly four hours long. But he speaks the text with clarity and command, and he makes Hamlet believable as a whirlpool of contradictions: an inconstant avenger, a jealous yet indifferent lover, a humane moralist who kills innocents without remorse. Rather than impose a defining personality to achieve cohesion, Kline glories in the character's variety. Spontaneity and impulse are key to his approach. Exploring the role in rehearsal, Kline improvised without warning, flopping onto the floor when he was meant to sit, tearing pages from...
...fortysomething closet video-game addict, I'm not at all surprised by the features of the new Xbox. I'm no conservative moralist, but I am worried by the incredible darkness in the gaming world. Most current game designs (besides those of sports and auto-racing titles) are oppressively heavy and angst-ridden. I hope the next breakthrough in gaming ends the ceaseless marketing to the basest instincts of the 18-year-old male psyche. I will stick with sports games, but I am concerned that my 10-year-old son is growing up in a world in which even...
...fortysomething closet video-game addict, I'm not at all surprised by the features of the new Xbox. I'm no raging conservative moralist, but I am worried by the incredible darkness in the gaming world. Most current game designs (besides those of sports and auto-racing titles) are oppressively heavy and angst ridden. There is ceaseless marketing to the basest instincts of the 18-year-old-male psyche. I am concerned that my 10-year-old son is growing up in a world in which even previously lighthearted games now include blood splattering and bad language. Perhaps bringing...