On the subjected of eroticization of machinery, Robert Hughes discusses in "The Shock of the New" the work of Picabia (sp?), an early twentieth century painter who was obsessed with speed and the internal combustion engine and rhapsodized about these matters on canvas. Dan Gribbin Ferrum College [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite