"Publishing pictures of half-naked persons promotes amorous behavior and frustrates the move by the government and the society to fight against the killer disease AIDS," Omar Ramadham Mapuri, a top government minister, said in announcing the move.
Here, at the Abercrombie & Fitch store in the Westchester, a vast shopping center, pictures of half-nude models hang coyly above registers, and shoppers skirmish amiably over cropped miniskirts and skimpy tank tops against an aural backdrop of the White Stripes.
He tells of how the inexorable processes of modernization and the anxieties they brought on led to widespread hunger for images of unspoiled nature on the one hand and on the other for images of a historical continuity like pictures of half-ruined Gothic churches or picturesque villages.
Ms Short said in 1997, after The Sun backed Labour's election campaign: "They think it's normal and acceptable to carry daily pictures of half-naked women, which is still revolting - but I'm still glad they're supporting us".
I feel the dark powers compel me to join this site, to post my angstily-drawn pictures of half-naked ________s and faeries, all of which are elaborate metaphors for the constant state of _________ in which I perpetually, endlessly, forever find myself.
I prefer not to keep pictures of half-nude women in plain sight to prevent myself from going crazy, but I can't control every man in this place.
If your brain is struggling to impose coherence on this picture of half-alliances, provocations and incessant death, that is no accident.
She explained that mock-Tudor is unique to England, like red London buses, so you only have to flash a picture of half-timbering onscreen and audiences know the film is set in England.
For example, a photographer of the Associated Press snapped a picture of half-naked Raëlian women wearing pasties as part of an anti-war demonstration in Seoul, Korea.
