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...AIDS in Haiti and, oddly enough, in parts of southeastern Florida. Belle Glade (pop. 19,000), Fla., with 46 cases, has the highest incidence in the U.S. "There is raw sewage on the ground and rats running all around," says Dr. Mark Whiteside of Miami's Tropical Medicine Clinic. Filth, insects and a high rate of tuberculosis, he suggests, might contribute to the epidemic...
Most horrifying of all was the plight of those who were trapped, still living, in the mud. Many were buried up to their necks; some had their mouths stopped with filth, so they could not cry for help. Sometimes the buried survivors were still locked in gruesome embrace with the dead. One was Omaira Sanchez, 13, who remained up to her neck in ooze two days following the disaster. When the mudslide struck, Omaira was washed up against her aunt, who grabbed hold of her. The aunt died, but kept her grip, even after rigor mortis had set in. Finally...
...There's some amusement in statements from 70s moral guardians -such as "It's a floodgate of filth that's engulfed the minds and hearts and souls of America like nothing else ever has" -especially when the speaker is convicted savings-and-loan embezzler Charles Keating. It's a pleasure to watch Reems stalwartly defend his work against the ferociously righteous Roy Cohn (later to die of AIDS after a life of secret gay sex). What isn't so funny is that a Memphis jury found Reems guilty of obscenity for appearing in Deep Throat. "For the first time...
...WHAT'S FILTH...
Unsurprisingly, African-American rights activists decried the film’s historical fallacy. In 1915, the NAACP issued a pamphlet calling the film “three miles of filth.” Riots erupted in Boston and Philadelphia and the film was prevented from being shown in eight states. Subsequent re-releases have been accompanied by lawsuits and protests; and in 1998, a large outcry erupted when The Birth of a Nation was named #44 in the American Film Institute’s list of the Top 100 American Films...