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...factories, construction sites and shipyards across the U.S., girly pinups -- often so anatomically explicit they would make Betty Grable blush -- are the workingman's constant companion. Although women hold 8.6% of skilled blue- collar jobs, their presence has done little to diminish the existence of these graphic images. For their part, courts have been reluctant to rule that pornographic pictures constitute a form of sexual harassment in the workplace, mainly because such photos are ubiquitous...
...guitar strains that accompanied the PBS series The Civil War. The haunting tune, called Ashokan Farewell, had been composed eight years earlier, one morning at the end of summer, by a lapsed '60s rocker turned upcountry fiddler named Jay Ungar. By wedding its beauty and timelessness to hundreds of graphic still photos, PBS created an affecting combination...
...that U.S. troops in combat face two foes: one on the battlefield, the other in the news media. In this view, reporters are more interested in probing for contradictions between official statements and the testimony of footsore grunts than in emphasizing any underlying unity of purpose. They seek out graphic images of suffering, invading the privacy of victims and allowing emotion to obscure larger concerns of national policy. Above all, they may be so skeptical about war in general, or a current war in particular, that they do not root for the American side. Journalists regard this characterization as unfair...
Perhaps MTV finds Madonna's graphic images disturbing. Perhaps MTV finds Madonna's themes immoral. But the list of creative geniuses who have used graphic images and controversial themes in their art includes just about every creative genius. If MTV wants concerned parents to be able to keep their children away from Madonna's videos, warning labels and late air times are perfectly appropriate. An all-encompassing ban only suppresses originality, discouraging artistic exploration...
...double-page spread on the Civil War, for example, provides a chart of slavery in the U.S. from 1790 to 1860, battle maps, a Mathew (misspelled Matthew in the text) Brady photograph, the Union and Confederate statistics at Gettysburg and graphic breakdowns of population, agriculture, manufacturing and finance in the North and South. An account briefly describes the origins of conflict and carries the war from secession to surrender. Related entries discuss the Reconstruction period and lead on to such topics as colonialism, states' rights, the career of Martin Luther King Jr. and Brown v. Board of Education...