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...truth could be so much simpler that it's staring us in the face. There's always been a market for scary stories and vicarious acts of violence. But true horror can be bloodless, as in Henry James' matchless tale, The Turn of the Screw. Even reckless violence, as in the old-time western, need not debauch the human form. No, if offerings like American Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs have anything to tell us about ourselves, it must be that at this particular historical moment, we have come to hate the body...
...caused the worst mishap in the 20-year history of Japan's atomic power industry, crippling a plant in the town of Mihama, about 200 miles west of Tokyo. "When the skill and discipline of the Japanese falter," says Lawrence Lidsky, an M.I.T. nuclear engineer, "that means anyone can screw...
...this for action-packed cinematic adventure? Scene: the Los Angeles set of MGM-Pathe's comedy-thriller Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. It's the final phase of shooting, and volatile screen star Mickey Rourke has had enough. "Screw this!" he blurts out. "If I'm not going to get paid, then I'm not going to work!" Members of the film's production crew threaten their own wildcat strike five days later if they aren't paid. The panicked studio rushes paychecks to the set -- by messenger...
...prisoners are really excited to play," Patton said. "And they know that if they screw up, they won't get to play again. The prison games are definitely one of the best experiences of Classics...
...presence. He saw himself, though, as a Romantic poet trapped in a pop star's body and worked hard at punishing that body with all-life binges of alcohol, drugs and heavy sex. "I'm rich and famous, smart and pretty," he must have mused. "Now how can I screw it up?" He did so by speeding up the physical and mental decay that aging forces on mere mortals. Like his hero Rimbaud, he raced death to the finish line. When he died in 1971, at 27, he was ravaged, depleted, spent. But for a few years Morrison was Satan...