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- <text id=91TT1850>
- <title>
- Aug. 19, 1991: Retouchy Subject
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 63
- Retouchy Subject
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- <p>By Alexander Tresniowski/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> The latest rock controversy isn't about obscene lyrics or
- devil worship--it's about neutered nude statues. The Greek
- figures are pictured on the cover of Tin Machine II, the new
- album from a band fronted by David Bowie. When more than half
- of record retailers refused to carry it, Victory Music president
- Phil Carson had the offending genitalia airbrushed on albums to
- be released in the U.S. (elsewhere the statues escaped
- emasculation). "I'm not proud of my decision," admits Carson.
- "But retailers don't want to deal with a bunch of irate
- mothers." Says Bowie: "Such a big noise over such a small thing,
- so to speak." Once symbols of perfect balance, what do the
- statues symbolize now? "America's confused morality," Bowie
- says.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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