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...annual meeting, held this year in Beverly Hills' Regent Beverly Wilshire, had more than financial statements on their minds. Police representatives and other critics blasted the company for releasing black rapper Ice-T's Body Count album and its Cop Killer cut, which contains such lines as "Die Pig, Die!" During the five- hour session, actor Charlton Heston denounced Time Warner for, among other things, shipping the compact discs to radio stations in miniature body bags. (A company spokesman said the bags were in keeping with the theme of the album, which includes cuts warning about the dangers of drug...
...Pig" is strong speech, but the Constitution protects strong speech, and it's doing so this year more aggressively than ever. The Supreme Court has just downgraded cross burnings to the level of bonfires and ruled that it's no crime to throw around verbal grenades like "nigger" and "kike." Where are the defenders of decorum and social stability when prime-time demagogues like Howard Stern deride African Americans as "spear chuckers...
Menacing as it sounds, the fantasy in Cop Killer is the fantasy of the powerless and beaten down -- the black man who's been hassled once too often ("A pig stopped me for nothin'!"), spread-eagled against a police car, pushed around. It's not a "responsible" fantasy (fantasies seldom are). It's not even a very creative one. In fact, the sad thing about Cop Killer is that it falls for the cheapest, most conventional image of rebellion that our culture offers: the lone gunman spraying fire from his AK-47. This is not "sedition"; it's the familiar...
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...that the Pygmies have it right: the less you wear, the faster your skin dries after rainfall and the less likely you are to get parasitic fungi and footworms. Fay has already accumulated four nasty footworms, which burrow under the skin until they discover that you are not a pig or elephant -- their proper hosts. The worms then die, but bacteria in the little corpses infect your feet...