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...DEMON SEED...
Still, Audrey Rose seems sophisticated compared with Demon Seed. The trouble here starts with a computer scientist (Fritz Weaver) who is just too good at his job. Down at work he has created a superbrain named Proteus. At home, he has wired up a system that takes care of most of the household chores. This leaves Julie Christie, as his wife, bored and offended to the point of asking for a divorce, especially now that their child has died of leukemia. Weaver departs, but Proteus, unknown to him, has developed a capacity to think without the aid of programmers. Inevitably...
...election result shows that dictatorship cannot acquire any roots in this country." Declared M.C. Sachdeva, 27 a government clerk. "To my generation, freedom began today, not in 1947." The Janata victory, added a fire brigade employe "has come mythical Lord Rama descending to earth to destroy the evil demon Indira...
Then there would be Edith Ann, a 5½-year-old demon even the devil could not exorcise. Edith Ann's idea of playing with dolls is to put one under her dress-and tell everyone she's pregnant. "I don't usually get a cold," she confides. "I have leprosy...
...gave Bunch the tempo, and he took a few deep breaths before he put the clarinet to his lips. But he followed the beat in and when he started to blow, forty years made no difference. Goodman played strong and jubilant, and moved like the puppet of some demon beat he swallowed in the '20s. The audience clapped and stomped in rhythm. The couple in the balcony finally lost their anxieties and joined...