InfoTrac and the Man with No Pants

[Dan Ream]

A followup to my Friday posting about the pants-less man in INFOTRAC.

My apologies to those who don't have INFOTRAC, below is the citation text
and a temporary link to the photo.

This was the first match to my rap music and violen*   keyword search.
Most other INFOTRAC citations to that same issue opf Rolling Stone
magazine contain this same photo.

--Dan Ream
  Virginia Commonwealth University Library
  Richmond, Virginia

P.S. And to those who asked--no, I didn't notify INFOTRAC. I knew they'd
     surely kill it and it was just too much fun as it is/was. Analogies
     to the "let's dissect the alien" motif of 1950s sci-fi movies are
     welcome ;-)

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Rolling Stone, May 13, 1999 i812 p28(2) 
Q & A: Salman Rushdie. (infamous author)(Interview) David Fricke. 

Abstract: Noted author Salman Rushdie was forced to live in exile 
for nearly a decade after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death
sentence against him for writing his book 'The Satanic Verses.' 
Rushdie discusses his work with the band U2, his youth in England,
and his thoughts on violent lyrics in rap music. 

http://saturn.vcu.edu/~dream/nopants.gif

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:29:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dan Ream <dream at saturn.vcu.edu>
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: InfoTrac and the Man with No Pants 


How's that for an e-mail subject header??

Yesterday while showing our entering freshmen the wonders of InfoTrac
Expanded Academic ASAP during orientation, we did a keyword search for
       rap music and violen*

The first article in our search results was from the May 13, 1999
issue of Rolling Stone and in InfoTrac is supposedly abstract-only.

Welllll, take a look at the record and tell me what you see.

Better yet, tell me why!! We and our freshmen got a good laugh out of it,
but I'm still not sure why this picture is included in the abstract of
this and most of the other article abstracts in InfoTrac from that May 13,
1999 issue of Rolling Stone.

Theories or explanations, anyone??

--Dan Ream
  Virginia Commonwealth University Library
  Richmond, Virginia