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...about those demons, but it has plenty to show, in images that mix beauty and horror, atrocity and comedy. Angels and red horses glide across the night sky. Mallory's family life is played as a grotesque sitcom that ends when her awful father (Rodney Dangerfield) is beaten to death and her weak mother is set ablaze. When Mickey and Mallory visit an Indian shaman (Russell Means), the words demon and too much tv are superimposed on their torsos. Flashes of Hitler and Stalin, insects and rhinos, The Wild Bunch and Midnight Express (the film whose screenplay won Stone...
...Beijing. This was the summer capitol -- pleasure dome is a fair description -- established by Kublai (1215-1294), grandson of Genghis Khan, and a personage who, according to Marco Polo, "always rides on the back of four elephants, in a very handsome shelter of wood, covered inside with cloth of beaten gold and outside with lion skins." The location of the palace, and the vast size of Kublai's grounds, can be traced today, with the help of guides from China's Bureau of Relics. It is the ghost of magnificence; only a few shards of colored tile can still...
...well. Hutu continue to attack Tutsi in the Goma camps. These bodies are different -- not passive, wasting corpses, but twisted wrecks of crushed skulls and flaking blood. A Tutsi woman is accused of brewing poison tea and giving it to 60 Rwandan soldiers, killing them all. She is beaten to death. One group of Hutu fall upon a Tutsi man along the road to the airport, beat him senseless, then lay him on his stomach and stomp on his spine until it snaps. No one bothers to cover his body. There is no time to count the dead, much less...
Last year, I was hospitalized after being badly beaten by my boyfriend simply because I wanted to attend a family outing. I felt that the beatings were my fault and that I could withstand the punishment. But when my child also became a victim, I finally woke up. I have since started college at the age of 35, and begun to work and spend time with my family. It is hard to leave a relationship, but you must be strong-minded and strong-willed and get out. No one should ever take abuse...
...women who have served as a chief of station plans to sue the CIA and seven current or former officials for sex discrimination and failure to report a crime after she allegedly told the agency that a fellow officer with whom she was serving abroad had beaten his wife...