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...from those who suffer the effects. But it is also about -- to the extent that the hallucinatory stream of consciousness can be said to be "about" anything -- transvestism, multinational corporations, military buildups, Hostess cupcakes and rape of every variety. At times, director Reza Abdoh's 135-minute, intermissionless work, co-written with Mira- Lani Oglesby, sounds like the ravings of a paranoid schizophrenic; at times, it is performance art of fever pitch and mute beauty...
...across all races, classes and life-styles. The youths who went on the Central Park rampage were blacks and Hispanics from Harlem, but they were not desperately poor. Three of the five suspects charged in the Glen Ridge sexual assault were idolized football stars, and two of them were co-captains of their high school team. Eight other Glen Ridge High School students, including the son of a local police lieutenant, allegedly stood by and watched the assault. In Denver a 16-year-old boy charged with first-degree murder in a stabbing death was a high school honors student...
Guns N' Roses put out an album called Appetite for Destruction, which has sold more than 6 million copies. The jacket cover, featuring a robot looming over a woman in torn clothing, was so repellent that some record stores refused to carry the album. Says Tipper Gore, co-founder of the Parents' Music Resource Center and a longtime critic of rock lyrics: "Music companies are cultural strip miners, profiting from the sex and violence and ignoring the scars...
...texts using masculine terms for humanity, the editors took greater liberties. Not even works of Methodism's co-founder and greatest hymnodist, Charles Wesley, were spared. In his Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, "pleased as man with men to dwell" becomes "pleased with us in flesh to dwell." In Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, "sons of men and angels say Alleluia" is recycled as "earth and heaven in chorus say Alleluia." As for other hymns: God of Our Fathers is now God of the Ages; Good Christian Men, Rejoice metamorphoses into Good Christian Friends, Rejoice; and O Little Town...
Skeptics note that, unlike campaigning for abortion rights or fringe political causes, environmental activism offers no career risk. "It's a nonpartisan issue," says Heal the Bay co-chair Ellen Gilbert. "What's the other side -- a dirty ocean?" Others suspect that the glamour do-gooders will lose interest or be unable to give up gas-guzzling cars and private planes. Bonnie Reiss, executive director of ECO, disagrees: "This is a people's movement, and we're beginning with the wealthy and privileged people of Hollywood...