Word: netherworlds
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...festival is a funeral rite, a way of invoking the dead," said Chris Tirres, one of the organizers of the event and a Divinity School student. "It really started with the Aztecs, who had a preoccupation with the netherworld...
...most intimate act of their lives a spectator sport. They see no reason to explain this, and neither does this defiantly noncommittal film. At the start, for example, Eddie is already exhibiting himself for money. We don't learn why he and Amber and Rollergirl descended into the netherworld of sexual showmanship; they have dwelt in that Valley from the start...
However, four of these vendors ventured nervously into a police precinct at 4 a.m. on July 19 with a three-page letter that hinted at the silent netherworld they inhabited. Following them to two houses in Queens, police discovered 57 Mexicans, most of them deaf-mute illegal immigrants, crammed into two top-floor apartments. Alternately signing and writing, the shabbily dressed immigrants--among them pregnant women and children and infants--described themselves as exploited laborers held captive by the Paolettis, a Mexican family whose deaf members had enticed them with promises of a sweeter life, then confiscated their identity documents...
...down the trailer park"); Richard Linklater's Slacker, with its Austin, Texas, deadbeats, was their movie. This was the MTV generation: Net surfing, nihilistic nipple piercers whining about McJobs; latchkey legacies, fearful of commitment. Passive and powerless, they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label that stuck was from Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X, a tale of languid youths musing over "mental ground zero--the location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping of the atomic bomb...
...murder mysteries get tawdrier with the telling. And probing the netherworld of Los Angeles for Ennis Cosby's killer is unlikely to produce an exception. In the end, the tale of fathers and sons that made it so compelling may be merely a small part of some endless legal epic. But that facet may prove to be the most enduring one. Ennis Cosby was Bill Cosby's legacy. And his son's legacy may be a young man in New York City. When Walter Stephen Douglas heard of the murder, his heart was not really with the celebrity dad most...