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...Many crimes have only one witness. Most muggings are one witness against the person he identifies in a lineup three months later. A mugging, it's 90 seconds -- don't scream, don't look at my face, give me your money -- often from behind. A sex offense rarely lasts less than 15 to 20 minutes, and if the assailant has the victim in her apartment, on a rooftop, it can last an hour. So the information is there through every one of her senses, unlike other kinds of crime. No one forgets really. It's getting her to trust what...
Normality withers in this anthology, only to be reborn in grotesque form. The bleak life of a homeless woman is snuffed out through blind chance in "Zombies on Broadway," by Kaz, whose characters recall the hollow face and tortured body of the man in Edvard Munch's "The Scream." And woodcut figures ride the subway to self-immolation in the Village Voice's Mark Beyer's "The Unpleasant Subway...
...Rush shout "Mega-dittos" as a greeting. Those who don't agree, he says, endanger his concept of "safe talk" (to guarantee which Limbaugh once placed a condom over his microphone) and may get a "caller abortion." They are cut off, with vacuum-cleaner noises and a woman's scream in the background...
...thinks, to still be for something like "solidarity" or "community" during the Reagan era. In one moving passage, he describes the scene at a Wisconsin plant closing that marked the end for the Autoworkers local. Standing outside the plant, not knowing what to do, the members decide to scream. It was, said the papers later, a yell that could be heard in the Loop, 60 miles away. To Geoghegan, it was a scream Edvard Munch could have painted. One day that scream will be commemorated with a plaque, he writes, "and people will walk past it and remember. And they...
...much. "Whoop! Scream! Whoop!" goes the traumatized Lumina. A passerby hearing the alarm rushes toward the beleaguered car, shaking his umbrella and addressing the car thief, "See here, my man! Unhand that vehicle!" Right...