Word: cults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supremely fitting that David Koresh fronted a rock-'n'-roll band because many kids look for the same things from a rock group that they do from a cult: a sense of belonging, a sense of worship and the feeling that what they're doing will drive their parents absolutely crazy. Singer Perry Farrell's previous band, the Los Angeles-based alternative-rock quartet Jane's Addiction, provided fans with concerts of pagan celebration: their music was bursting with guitar-powered Dionysian frenzy and golden calf-esque imagery (Bored with your lives, children...
...often wielded by Koresh's "mighty men" in the "whipping room" just off the first floor. The instrument left circle-shaped lesions, an inch across, on the children's buttocks. Koresh's son Cyrus, when he was three years old, once refused a command and, according to a former cult member, was starved for two days and forced to sleep on a garage floor where Koresh told him large rats prowled...
...going to be," says Kiri Jewell, 12, who was taken from the compound by her natural father in 1991. "One minute he was nice, and the next he was suddenly nasty." The children also learned songs filled with violent apocalyptic imagery. War and martial-arts films proliferated in the cult's video library. Koresh preached that the world was full of "bad guys," hurtful unbelievers out to kill the Davidians. Mistrust everyone, he said; deceive all non-believers. At Waco's Methodist Home, where the compound children were housed following their release, Perry, carrying a five-month-old child...
...horror tale at Waco. Investigators put the body count for the April 19 inferno at 80. The Texas Rangers scavenged 200 whole guns after the fire. The Justice and Treasury departments began reviews of the roles played by the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. And cult member Stan Sylvia, whose wife and daughters died, brought the first lawsuit against the U.S. government, for $18 million...
...docudrama deluge will realize they've stumbled onto something special. A few more minutes, and a lot of them might be zapping off to Married . . . with Children. But those who fall for Wild Palms could fall hard: what we have here may be TV's next cult hit. Or at the very least, the most spellbinding mini-series to come along since Twin Peaks...