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...husband of a brothel owner become casual lovers and then, following the logic of exclusive devotion, swoon into a passion whose fulfillment is violent death. In Merry Christmas, the viewer is thrown al once into the sadomasochistic excess of Oriental machismo. Here, every gesture of discipline, compassion, rage and honor is expressed by the blade of a Japanese officer's sword. Firing squads shoot blanks at condemned men; Japanese soldiers are decapitated as part of the hara-kiri ceremony; Geneva conventions are defied with a twitch of the captain's jaw muscle-all as ancient rituals of purification...
...that any resistance will provoke greater violence, isolated from her family and friends, often without any means of support other than the husband, many a battered woman sinks into despairing submission, from which the only escape is eventual widowhood, her own murder (or, perhaps in a flash of retaliatory rage, her husband's), or suicide. According to a four-year study of a major metropolitan hospital completed this year, 25% of all women's suicide attempts are preceded by a prior history of battering...
Often the anger is directed at the whole female sex. Rapists tend to view women with a mixture of reverence and resentment. They choose random women on whom to vent their roiling rage about mothers who mistreated them or women who rejected them. "I was angry with my wife for having a crush on my brother, and I was angry with the first girl I went out with when I was 17 who told me I wasn't assertive enough," said John, a rapist in the sex-offender program at Western State Hospital at Fort Steilacoom, Wash. "I felt judged...
...write this letter to you, I imagine my eyes still burning from the clouds of tear gas that seem to be a regular occurrence. . . Today the air seemed charged with rage. The entire city felt as though it was going to explode with anger...
...bail (actual cost to Dean: $250) facing charges of sodomy and sexual abuse of his girlfriend's 15-year-old sister. Some black residents argue that the inability of the city's predominantly white police force to cope with crime in their areas also lies behind rage like Williams'. "You dial 911 and half the time the car won't come," says Councilman Collins. "I'm not indicting the police-there are just too many criminals, too much crime...