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Word: demon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alex who will take Beth up on her dare, swiping Ellen from school for an almost innocuous afternoon kidnaping. The outraged husband tries taking matters into his own hands by strangling Alex back in her kitchen -- be a movie man, Dan -- but he can't finish the job. This demon will have to be destroyed by the only pure spirit left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...evil man. But this time Dan is the vulnerable one -- in De Palma's provocative term, a "feminized male" -- partly because of his position as head of the family. And his adversary is scarily strong, a masculinized female even in name -- Alex. She is the stalker, the demon, the sexual adventurer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...wear a tie, demon." I grabbed the sign...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: A Tie That Binds | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

...Lesbian Imagination" and "The Demon-Lover" are among the Harvard doctoral dissertations selected to be published for the first time this year by Garland Publishing, a Manhattan-based firm specializing in the publication of unusual texts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funky Doctoral Theses Chosen For Publication | 10/15/1987 | See Source »

...dance record. Jackson's lyrics combine sometimes glancing felicity ("Your talk is cheap/ You're not a man/ You're throwin' stones/ To hide your hands") with scat-style facility. There is a great singer at work here, doing vocal stunts on tracks like Dirty Diana or Speed Demon that are as nimble and fanciful as any of his dance steps. Man in the Mirror, a ballad of confession and resolution, is more than just a vocal turn. It is a remarkable dramatic performance -- intense, direct and unadorned, one of the best things Jackson has ever done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Badder They Come | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

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