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...great reacher-out, the great healer--while that is going on? It is the Bush machine, not the Gore machine, that encouraged supporters to storm the office where Miami-Dade officials were trying to count votes. It is Republican leaders in Tallahassee and Washington, not Democratic ones, who weave lurid scenarios of legislative intervention if they don't get their way. So which side is trying to "change the rules in the middle of the game...
...CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD: Forget all those lurid statistics constantly peddled by the Goody-Two-Shoes lobby about the common cold's toll of billions of lost man-hours. See it in human terms: the common cold is a godsend, the greatest benefactor to the working stiff since the advent of the boring job. It's technically an illness; in reality it's a universally acceptable excuse to declare yourself hors de combat and take a day off from work. Wipe out the common cold and you rob millions of Americans per week of their sacred rights not only...
...Mikels insists that he has always worked clean, not wanting to leave his family with "a legacy of distaste"; thus, even movies with wonderfully lurid titles like "Blood Orgy of the She Demons" are essentially G-rated. "Apartheid" doesn't depart too much from this philosophy, except for the fact that a good deal of the time the proceedings resemble a trample-fetish video. However, in an era when Hollywood entertainment - "Charlie's Angels" included - is remarkably predictable, Mikels' work still comes as a cold slap in the face. "Apartheid's" oddly discordant tone, jarring juxtapositions, and the fact...
...most loosely plotted picture (loose scripting being a supreme virtue in exploitation cinema), "Women" concerns a group of female miners whose jewel heists and drug deals land them in prison. Once there, we witness the requisite staples of the women-in-prison genre (making this the most lurid film Mikels ever made) as the girls engage in shower catfights, evade the lustful warden, and endure a bizarre paint-can-on-the-head torture session. They eventually escape to safety - and the waiting arms of Arab oil sheiks (again...
...agreement here? The '50s were the decade of crucial change in American popular culture. Rock 'n' roll, lurid comic books, the Beats, Brando, teenage-werewolf movies and the mainstreaming of black performers signaled a transformation from old to young, smooth to raw, upper-class to underclass. But there was another '50s culture that ran parallel to this one, sometimes interacting with it but often commenting skeptically on it. One culture was hot and angry, the other cool and comic. One was the geyser, exploding with sexuality; the other the mainstream, flowing unroiled. One was radical, the other liberal...