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...Gardens in Tampa, Fla., the old saw "My heart was in my throat" is hardly appropriate: the feet are where the throat ought to be. As for the heart -it is on its own. Most unnerving of all are the giant loops on such rides as the Screamin' Demon at Kings Island, the Turn of the Century at Great America near San Francisco, and King Kobra at Richmond's Kings Dominion...
...thought the demon was finished off at the end of The Exorcist back in 1974? Nonsense. The old fiend, Pazuzu by name, has been lurking in Linda Blair's subconscious, waiting until the market seemed right for a sequel...
Other residents of Spring Mill Estates, an affluent Indianapolis suburb, knew Marguarite Jackson as "the demon lady." Though known to be rich, the plump, white-haired widow, 66, lived modestly, seldom venturing beyond the chain-link fence that guarded her weed-choked, three-acre property. Delivery men were instructed to stop on the street, honk, then pass their parcels to her over the fence. Lights blazed in the beige stone house day and night. When Mrs. Jackson did appear, her talk was a litany of paranoia. She cussed out other residents for complaining about her trash on the roadside...
...right-minded nobleman in Russian ballet, is out hunting. In exchange for her freedom, she gives him a feather that will bring her and her supernatural powers to his side in time of trouble. She knows there will be an emergency soon because the forest is controlled by a demon who imprisons young girls and can turn a man to stone. After a suitable confrontation with evil, the firebird triumphs. The girls are free, and the prince picks the fairest of them (Karena Brock) as his bride. In Balanchine's more sophisticated version, there are no golden apples...
...prose style. In the end, Proteus manages to get itself destroyed-too big for its breeches as it were. But not before it effects a kind of reincarnation: the child Christie conceives looks exactly like the one she lost to cancer. There are enough holes in the logic of Demon Seed's plot to drive twelve Proteuses through. Indeed, like Audrey Rose, it presents the best possible argument against reincarnation. Who wants a second lifetime full of movies like these? Richard Schickel