Word: demon
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...Miller familiarized: Shopworn sales talk has become the idiom of a society based on manipulation, commercial go-getting has been universalized as a private ethic, preservation of personal integrity means self-destruction. These are his cool assumption, the truisms of one who has seen-it-all. Sentimentially is a demon to him, so he lavishes heavy filmic methods in an effort to play it tough, and it is wholly at the expense of his material. He has twisted the form of his film into the shape of his gnomic self-consciousness...
...only was his father a deacon at Brooklyn's Concord Baptist Church and his godfather a traveling Baptist preacher, but Vereen studied six months in a Manhattan seminary. "I was always being saved," he says of his upbringing, "getting on my knees and ridding myself of the demon." Though he quit the seminary and later had what he calls a "little lovers' quarrel" with the church, he says he went into the theater "because it allowed me to reach people in so many capacities, to build a frame and fill it up with the spirit...
...artists). Over the centuries, most inros have lost their netsukes, and one of the delights of the Greenfield collection is the care with which appropriate matching has been restored. Thus a war helmet and mask on Koma Kyuhaku's 18th century inro are complemented by a fierce little demon mask with ivory horns. In a sense, the extreme limit of aestheticization was reached by the makers of tsubas. Considered merely as an object, the 19th century sword guard of the blue-black copper alloy known as shakudo, inlaid with gold maple leaves (the gold patchy, as in autumn...
...lived a mere eleven years, and his output, aside from a few little stories, was a "novel" called Cartoons, inspired by innumerable comic books and animated movie features. Though mildly precocious, Edwin is in fact a rather ordinary little fellow. The one to watch is Jeffrey Cartwright, a rare demon in the Nabokovian mold. With his "extraordinary, truly inspired memory," Jeffrey recalls his first meeting with Edwin, which occurred when the former was six months old and the latter but a few days. From that moment, Jeffrey preys upon the unfortunate Edwin, and after his untimely death launches into...
...might seem. In tournaments he sits transfixed, his foot tapping rapidly to the beat of some inner fury. Playing through solitary games in his room, he slams home each move with cries of "Crunch!" "Chop!" "Smash!" "Crash!" U.S. Grand Master Robert Byrne suggests that the demon in him is his "pursuit of the Idea of the game, in the Platonic sense. All of us players have that ideal. But Bobby knows how to embody it. He has the ability to overcome the chaotic mess and the complexity of modern chess, the baroque scramble, and isolate a single theme, a single...