Word: archaice
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Bernheimer never knows where his next piece will come from--he says he can find anything a customer wants. He sells everything from a wooden Upper Volta Bobo ladel for $240 to an 18th century Americana rocking horse for $450. In typical disorder, one case holds both a small Archaic Sassanian plate for $750 and an 18th century enamel pill...
...construction will improve the safety of neighborhood residents by eliminating the "archaic construction" of the buildings to be torn down, DiGiovanni said...
...coalescence of the modern and the archaic in the lives of these people is at once startling and refreshing. The Church is the tallest building in town; God exerts his influence even in the architecture. Calendars with the Pope's picture hold sacred positions next to the children's photos on top of the television. Sewing machines work manually, though electricity is available. Instant coffee sits on top of a wood-burning stove. Battered wooden rockers sway next to plastic kitchen chairs. Telephone wires stretch above glassless windows. Near the electricity meter the old fashioned stove-pipe vent perches like...
...10th-llth century figure of Krishna dancing on the hood of the cobra-demon Kaliya, holding up the creature's tail in a ripple of bronze like a Malay kris, and the majestic, decapitated Female Torso from llth century Cambodia, an image as silent and epigrammatic as any archaic Greek kouros...
Both Woods and the Rev. Juan Cortes, a Jesuit psychology teacher at Georgetown, point out that in traditional Catholic teaching on possession, the evil spirit was considered to be a lesser demon, not the devil himself. Cortes doubts the existence of such lesser demons, seeing them merely as archaic religious interpretations of what are now recognized as mental and psychological disturbances. Though Cortes believes in a personal devil who incites evil, he does not believe in possession. Thus, he says, the movie results in "a victory for the devil, because people will believe he can actually possess them...