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Investigators have never reached a consensus on ailurophobia-extreme fear of cats. Some postulate a traumatic childhood experience with felines, while others blame the cat's galvanizing stare, or disdain for affection, or even its slippery, furred coat and unfriendly, arching backbone. Traditional superstitions still exist: cats suck the breath from sleeping infants, sour fresh milk, forecast the phases of the moon and serve Satan. A black cat is bad luck. According to old belief, a cat, through necromancy or something even more unfathomable, has been given nine lives. Such Draculatic positions, however, are rare. Cats themselves often seem...
Says Charles Althafer, 49, of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta: "Most folks are turned off by the disease of the month, by frightening reports on PCB and Love Canal. It makes them want to go home and suck their thumbs." Disaster seems to threaten through disease or radiation or some vague Apocalypse Now that everyone fears but cannot give a face to. Some Americans still prepare for anarchy by retreating to the hills with automatic weapons, radiation detectors and the Royal Canadian Air Force Exercise Plans for Physical Fitness; a few have taken to storing freeze-dried survival...
...Here the fables are turned: women rescue men, outwit demons and fight like Cossacks. Tatterhood, named for her ragged, mud-stained clothes, batters a gang of wicked trolls and recaptures the severed head of her sister. An old Japanese woman, paddling along a stream, thinks quickly when pursuing monsters suck up all the water: she tosses them some fish and the monsters have to release the stream water to eat them. Another heroine, a woodcutter's daughter, claims her prince by washing out three unremovable stains-a theme that could strike some feminists as too close to detergent commercials...
...suck live," said Nick Lowe, when asked for comment about Rockpile's recent break-up. This self-effacing humor makes these bands sound so fresh, but also limits the market for them in this country. Where Adam and the Ants, a group that dons warpaint and drone on and on about "Ant-people" have become instant stars, the faceless three-minute ditty men, covering classic pop songs and penning their own to match, are buried forever...
...trying to sell a pound of cocaine he picked up at a Philadelphia drop-off site, and Chrissie is a mindless, though benevolent, sucker who babbles about reincarnation and defends Joe's dealing by remarking "Dope's all right--dope is for everyone!" Malle's Atlantic City seems to suck all the aimless and the brainless from everywhere across America to itself, gathering them in this sinkhole so they can leech off each other...