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...shows two lusty sons of a rich landlord cornering a pretty, well-endowed maid in their plush bedroom. "Let me go," she implores, but the men's hands move toward her writhing body. The camera heightens the suggestion of what is to come without allowing the scene to become graphic; there is no nudity, but there is plenty of screaming and leering. When the deed is done, the audience lets out a barely audible sigh of relief. Or is it pleasure? For Ashok Rawat, 28, a building contractor, it is the latter. Says he: "Rape is enjoyable because...
...only works that really could even border on the pornographic would be those in the notorious "XYZ Collection". Some people wonder how graphic the photos can really be. Very graphic. Graphic enough to disturb, but isn't that in some ways the responsibility of art? To unsettle us, to define for us the extent of our own sensitivity to images that are real and true. The graphic photos, after all, are as aesthetically and technically superb as the rest of the images. We are not reacting to something in them as much as we are reacting to something...
...mode of such Hollywood classics as Double Indemnity and The Big Sleep, these cable-noir thrillers feature tales of murder, treachery, lust and double-dealing. The mood is somber, the detectives usually disillusioned and the blonds nearly always dangerous. A bit more graphic in sex and violence than network movies, cable-noir films go straight for the gut. And their aim is true. The cable networks may get more attention for their high-minded docudramas (Mandela) and gourmet remakes (Charlton Heston in A Man for All Seasons). But these unpretentious B movies are their doughy bread and butter...
...language was imposed on the NEA as a result of its funding of two photo shows. One involved sexually graphic works by the late Robert Mapplethorpe, the other a depiction by Andres Serrano of a plastic crucifix dunked in the artist's urine. Although many people in the arts community expected the ruckus to be short-lived, a year later it shows no sign of abating. Some liberals question whether Endowment Chairman John Frohnmayer need enforce the new rules so confrontationally: the National Endowment for the Humanities is not requiring recipients to sign any new pledge. But the pressure...
...power, painter Angela Hampel ought to be delighted. Far from it. Like many artists, Hampel, 34, is "disappointed in what has happened since November. We never expected the greed and scrabbling that we see now." In her Dresden studio, which is cluttered with scythes, sickles, knives, spikes and other graphic symbols of violence, hang pictures of suffering female figures. It is women, she predicts darkly, who will bear the brunt of a changing society, and her art is about the "hopelessness of their condition." This month in a Dresden gallery, Hampel opened a new exhibit of her work...