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...boredom, exasperation, tears. He is, in last week's favorite phrase, her mentor and tormentor. What the aging artist Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli) does to his young model, Marianne (Emmanuelle Beart), as she poses for his first painting in years, is a disinterested kind of sexual harassment for art's sake. These sittings, a seduction on canvas, fill more than half of Jacques Rivette's four-hour La Belle Noiseuse. The phrase is loosely translated as "the beautiful nut case," but Frenhofer, not Marianne, is the genial lunatic: a man of the world who is a mad monk...
...devoted to dirty talk. To have to listen to a man's sexual fantasies is to be forced, at least for the moment, to share them. (With animals? No kidding.) And that is a level of intimacy that even married people, in couples, often choose to forgo for the sake of their mutual illusions...
Exactly. If the UC wants a PR officer for the sake of creating a position, that's fine. If the UC wants a PR officer for the sake of providing better spin control, that's pathetic. Student governments--like student newspapers--are supposed to be unpopular. If you can't take the abuse, quit...
Those members of Congress who ventured back to their districts got an earful last week. "They're supposed to be making policy for the United States, and they can't even keep their checkbooks balanced," said attorney Steve Adams of Naperville, Ill. "For God's sake, who's running the store?" Freshman Republican James Nussle was back in Iowa eating at a local Pizza Hut with his family when a nearby diner asked if he planned to pay by check. Democrat Pat Schroeder, who insists that she has not bounced any checks, says the furor "captures the brick-through...
...Muslim is"Kafir." 4. Americans are especially"Kafir." 5. President Bush is the most"Kafir" of all, an anti-Muslims, Zionist Jew. 6. The sheiks in Gulf nations like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and their followers are "munafiqueen" (hypocritical Muslims, infinitely more detestable than kafirs 7. For the sake of Islam, Iraq needs a nuclear bomb. 8. So does Pakistan. 9. And Yassir Arafat...