This edition of Sound & Vision (in which recent pop clips are reviewed and rated on a 0-100 scale) focuses exclusively on recent videos by and/or about women-including cautionary tales about what happens to bad girls, from Madonna and Diamond & the Psychotic Neurotics; warnings about falling prey to pretty packaging, from INXS and 10,000 Maniacs; and, for balance, pure girl-lust from Dolly Parton.

INXS, "Beautiful Girl." This clip sounds preachy, and is: Buzzwords associated with the artificial upkeep of gorgeousness-"perfection, binge, boys, breasts, calories, shame, lie, 34-24-36, liposuction is stupid," et al.-flash across the screen at near-subliminal speed. Shots of surgical knives alternate with images of breast implants being pulled apart. We see close-ups of a woman sensually stuffing chocolate cake past her pursed lips, followed by the inevitable bowing at the porcelain shrine. All this assuring women that they don't need to change to be beautiful may seem a little hypocritical coming from INXS, which hasn't exactly filled its videos with average gals heretofore.

[Annie Lennox], "Little Bird." Lennox's pregnancy is undisguised but seemingly incidental here. She's playing "Cabaret" character Sally Bowles as an expectant mother, which, if it's a purposeful gag, is an obscure one. The real running joke here is that Lennox's stage performance is overrun by eight look-alikes, all dressed in guises recognizable from previous Eurythmics or solo Lennox videos: the red-haired androgyne from "Sweet Dreams," the leather rocker from "Would I Lie to You," the mad housewife, the blond tart, the raccoon-faced gal, et al. The scuffle that breaks out among these Lennoxes doesn't lead to a funny enough punch line at the end, but for video-watching veterans, along the way it makes for a cute game of Name That Persona. Longtime collaborator Sophie Muller directed. 70