Topic A : A Different Spin on the World Around Us : Some Material, Girl

Madonna’s new book may not be great literature, but it is a cultural phenomenon --at least this week. But for those who balk at spending 50 bucks on “Sex,” here are some reviews one might expect to see in. . .

A Fashion Magazine:

An audacious little book of lounge-wear. The look: bare. The fabric: leather in pants, boots, dog collars. Skin, skin, skin, straps, straps, straps, even a minimalist bathing suit--two pierced rings and a string. A very today version of the emperor’s new clothes.

A Literary Review:

This is a tour de force--Madonna working in a form that usually requires a speaking knowledge of the language. With a scribbled text and dimwitted narrator, this is damn hard to read. Still, it respects literary tradition: lined paper, Kahlil Gibran, “I’m OK, You’re OK,” dirty words.

An Art Quarterly:

Dark images crowded on a page, shot by the light of a 40-watt bulb and reproduced on heavy brown paper. Brief flashes illuminate tangles of legs and breasts, usually on the floor. Madonna keeps one eye on the camera; her partners look elsewhere. The arching vision: human bodies as offal.

A Men’s Magazine:

Ooooo, baby, baby!

A Junior High Newspaper:

Madonna’s not too good a speller, she writes messy, and she and her friends seem to meet in the school basement a lot. Everyone sits around laughing and doing silly things. Some of it’s really dorky stuff we haven’t even thought of since we were little. And the bathroom stuff is really yucky.

The Water Cooler Commentary:

We can’t define it, but we know trash when we see it.