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A popular Iranian reformer, Abdullah Kouri, was sentenced to five years in prison and a five-year banishment from publishing for blasphemous statements, says the NYT . His newspaper, one of the country's leading pro-democracy publications, was also shut down.
Catholics' spin: It's blasphemous "hate mail" to the Catholic church.
It would be culturally blasphemous to draw too close a parallel between an advertising symbol like Joe Camel and a tragic figure like Mayakovsky, who shot himself the year after he wrote his drama about the interplay of freedom, pleasure, and risk.
It doesn't do much good to come along and say, well, the encrustation of cut-out porno photos has a decorative quality that recalls Gustave Moreau's overloaded, quasi- (queasy) mystical images of the (last) fin de siècle ? Better would be to compare and contrast it with other art brut and with other blasphemous imagery.
But to remind its masters that it can still bite--and reinforce conservative prejudices that it's pink--PBS periodically aired blasphemous dramas ( Steambath , 1973), Mao-symp travelogues (Shirley MacLaine's The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir , 1975), politically provocative docudramas ( Death of a Princess , 1980), lefty attacks on agribiz ( Hungry for Profit , 1985), homoerotica ( Tongues Untied , 1991), and brazen assaults on logical thinking ( The Panama Deception , 1992).
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