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VIOLENT FEMMES: WHY DO BIRDS SING? (Slash/Reprise). Ornery, typically strange and downright swell. When these three tie into a song like Life Is a Scream, they make the inside of your head sing like Janet Leigh in her Psycho shower...
...which wannabe white woman Susan Kohner throws herself on her black mother's coffin and sobs out her remorse to the throb of a Mahalia Jackson spiritual. Jungle Fever is no less brazen -- or assured. A righteous man shoots his deranged son, and the man's wife unleashes a scream that blends with the gospel wail of . . . Mahalia Jackson. Here Jungle Fever ascends fearlessly into the delirium of high Hollywood melodrama: it's berserk Sirk...
...made up largely of local businessmen and tourism promoters, castigates them for wanting to shut the gate behind them after they get there. Complains Edward Biaggini, a hotelier and pro-growth advocate in nearby Morro Bay: "The people who come up to buy houses -- they're the ones who scream loudest about 'No growth...
Powerful images affect human beings, and in a democracy, human beings affect the decision-making process. That's why anti-abortion activists show The Silent Scream. That's why anti-hunger activists show horrifying pictures of malnourished children. If the networks hadn't sent graphic, troubling images of war home from Vietnam, American soldiers might still be out there in the jungle...
...falling asleep. "By now, I'm comfortable with him, and I put my head on his shoulder. He's not tried anything all evening, after all." Which is when the rape came. "I woke up to find him on top of me, forcing himself on me. I didn't scream or run. All I could think about was my business contacts and what if they saw me run out of my room screaming rape...