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Cracks in the Culture:

It's interesting how Michael Jackson's mysterious death seems to have pulverized the emotions of American popular culture. Wall-to-wall coverage on the cable stations has ensured that the strange obsessions of Americans over Jackson's music and bizarre, confused identity will continue to defy easy answers. Turning this sad, and in some ways warped, individual into a Dionysian godhead worthy of ostentatious public worship is as bizarre as the twisted star himself.

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