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...Oklahoma wildcat oil prospector, Gardner learned early to separate wild claims from bedrock actualities. At the University of Chicago, he was known as a demon chess player who quit the game for a greater love: philosophy. "But somewhere, no matter how serious I was," he recalls, "there was always a little boy kicking around inside. Then I sold my first story to Esquire. It wrapped a plot around some shaggy dog stories. Red Skelton mentioned the piece on the air, and the boy and philosopher were off and running...
...this sounds familiar: a cleric (William Marshall) doing some archaeological research in a distant land unleashes the spirit of an ancient demon. Back home across the sea, his sweet, pretty daughter-in-law (Carol Speed) starts acting up. Her sexual passion is unquenchable. Her vocabulary becomes raunchy, and her voice turns coarse to match. She knocks her husband around, makes the windows shake and the furniture jump and is even responsible for a death or two. Medical science cannot fathom her symptoms. Is she crazy? Or is her trouble-as someone ominously and predictably puts it-"something else"? Only...
...Salvador Dali. The best examples, currently at the Aberbach Gallery, are the works of Miodrag Djuric Dado, a Yugoslav painter who works in France. His L 'Hôpital has a jolting impact: beyond the window is the peaceful French village where Dado now lives. Inside, a demon in the shape of an owl crouches by the central crucifix, near the dancing man and his maimed and malevolent companion. A rotund dwarf grins and looks away. What does it mean? Perhaps that these phantasms exist, within any hospital's clutching walls, even when life goes on routinely...
...Alcohol," undoubtedly the highlight of the first part, provided the perfect outlet for Davies's strong attachment to the music hall/vaudeville traditions of his youth. The song was introduced in a quasi-puritanical manner, in which Davies warned the world against the imminent dangers of demon alcohol, while keyboard man John Gosling tinkled the ivories in such a fashion as to mock good-naturedly the somber scenario Davies tried to conjure up. The song's crapulous ambiance was supported by the sluggish, drawn out tempo of the Dixieland horn section and Davies's possibly unintentional slurring of the lyrics...
...deep-set Syrian arch on the Widener side and the fortress doors that open wider than any other Harvard entrances can't prepare us for the horrors of dilapidation that wait inside. The clattering pipes, the papering done over in a demon green, the creaking stairs. The deceptiveness of time an place: no clocks, uneasy room-numberings that make us jump from floor to floor. Use of the word "egress." When H.H. Richardson designed the building in 1878 he and his associates paid careful attention to the details of the inside; and the outside, as well, was keyed to function...