Feb 26, 2013 | Mail & Guardian
Popular culture's numbing effect
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to violence the word and the act. While violence cloaks itself in a plethora of disguises Violence devours all it touches; its voracious appetite rarely fulfilled." Thus begins the opening monologue by John Furlong in Russ Meyer's 1965 film, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! The film itself is hilarious despite its ... (more)
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