Word: excrementalism
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...film is lacerating. It provides an unflinching look at acts of incomprehensible barbarity. This renders it incredibly difficult to watch, and at times the viewer feels battered and bruised inside. The movie sears images into the viewer's head: a small boy up to his chest in excrement because he has hidden from the Nazis in the latrines; an old man being shot in the head; piles of photographs, suitcases and shoes. Here, precisely, lies the film's power--it will not allow anyone to look away, to ignore, to forget...
...raging satirist," the catalog calls Kelley, but satire, like revenge, is a dish best cooked by skeptical adults and then eaten cold, and it takes more than Irishness and a fixation on excrement to make a Dean Swift. Still, we need to be reminded that adolescence is a cultural construct, a pathological condition invented by and for Americans -- and Kelley, at least, does that...
...giraffes in a zoo and I loved them because they were beautiful," one message says. Another student wrote, "Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement." The tunnels' paintings include rainbows, a life-size. Spiderman and a diverse assortment of animals...
...prisoners. "With him you'll get the closest thing to a fair shake," says Michael Gunnells, the assistant warden in charge of security. A year ago, for instance, at Camp J -- home to Angola's incorrigibles -- staff morale had bottomed out in a storm of hurled food, spit and excrement. Whitley responded with a strict set of disincentives. Curse a guard, forfeit canteen privileges. Throw a meal tray, lose your radio. "The burden is on prisoners," says Captain Davy Kelone. "It drives them crazy." That it does. Camp J inmate Virgil Smith likens his living conditions to a "concentration camp...
Much more dangerous is pollution caused by the poultry industry, the most dominant in Arkansas. Growers have been dumping tons of dried chicken excrement, known as litter, on croplands in the northwestern part of the & state. "We're well past the land's capacity to accept the waste," says Robert Leflar, a Sierra Club official; he and others fear the litter will seep through porous limestone and contaminate streams and groundwater. Clinton in 1990 appointed an animal-waste task force to look into the problem (a favorite tactic: his first move in almost any crisis is to appoint a task...