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...made for HBO (Dec. 11, 8 p.m. EST), Nancy is trapped by a philandering husband and a cruel, cruel fate. Afflicted with ray burns suffered when she is seized by a huge space monster, Nancy is transmogrified into a murdering colossus and ultimately killed by a sheriff wielding a riot...
...noisy records from all over the globe, with bizarre slogans Jenny Holzer would kill to have coined liberally "mixed in" (in the ice-cream sense of the phrase "mixed in"). Nirvana and Sonic Youth were in here early on; the latest issue has the most articulate, most convincing (pro-) "Riot Grrrl" think-piece/manifesto I've seen, plus interviews with Moonshake, Sugar, Tsunami, Nation of Ulysses, Huggy Bear, several unheard-of British bands, and that guy who used to sing for the Pixies. Tower and Newbury Comics stock it, or send f3.90 to Karren Ablaze! at 17 Wetherby Grove, Leeds...
...record, or records (if you want the two singles), keeps the layers and layers of superb, crisp hooks while ditching the Lewis Carroll ideology: perhaps in reaction to the Riot Grrrl thing, Heavenly has written songs about female self-reliance, gender-based intimidation and, yes, date rape. "P.U.N.K. Girl" is about a supercool but rather repressed "girl" (no age given) who, Amelia Fletcher wishes, would act as "punk" as she makes Fletcher feel: "P is for the painful way/You make me feel some days/U is for you turn me on..." "Atta Girl" gives a disco-flavored backbeat to congratulations...
...something more elusive than a career: to fashion a new identity out of the conflicting allegiances and double-edged stereotypes that plague the Asian-American psyche. Material success has bred resentment, envy, even backlashes of violence from such other subnationalities as blacks and Latinos; last year's Los Angeles riot was a vivid reminder of that vulnerability. The image of Asians as immigrant role models has also disguised the enduring poverty of some, as well as the political feebleness of the minority as a whole...
...scores of lives. Pakistan sent 5,000 troops who did not have telephones, walkie-talkies, flak jackets, tear gas and even batons. Gear was eventually provided by other countries, but not before some of the poorly protected troops died in ambushes, and Somali civilians were killed when soldiers without riot gear fired their guns to dispel angry crowds. The U.N. has yet to organize an efficient communications network or stockpile enough rations. At one point food and water for the peacekeepers dropped well below a week's supply; someone had miscounted the number of troops. "That's a court-martial...