Word: demoniacally
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...decade was scarcely a year old when the nightmares began. The demoniac leer of Charles Manson. Confessions without remorse. An aerospace unemployment line of 180,000 bodies. Flickering images of a bank burning. Such impulses, such possibilities, had always been there beneath the glitter, but once they surfaced, it was hard to see Utopia any longer. Suddenly, a 1971 California poll showed that half the state's recent arrivals, plus a full third of its permanent residents, would leave if given the chance. This was big news. By 1972 California migration was 90% below the annual rate...
...jazz (remember, this is 1927), snorts a little white powder and generally acts confused. Eventually Hermine and her jazz musician crony Pablo (Pierre Clementi) decide that Harry is prepared and usher him into their Magic Theater. As rendered by Director Haines, the experience is like being sealed inside a demoniac color television set. The Magic Theater experiences convince Harry, in the words of the novel, to "see the ruins of my being as fragments of the divine." Lesser mortals would have just called the TV repairman...
...They are rarely able to accommodate genius or demoniac power. A society that must produce a great man in each generation to maintain its domestic or international position will doom itself...
...case of ordinary snowbound ennui, as eager young Gym Teacher Paul Reis (Beau Bridges) soon discovers. There have been "six student-caused accidents" in the winter term alone. Fingers have been mashed, brows bloodied, eyes gouged, as if the boys were all under the rule of some demoniac impulse...
...weeks later at the Republican convention he finds all the demoniac presences he can handle. Unlike most Democrats, Mailer was not turned off by the G.O.P.'s carefully scripted agenda. In the stockholder-meeting monotony and evasive efficiency Mailer perceives the highest expression of Richard Nixon's political genius. In fact, says Mailer, if it were not for the bombing in Southeast Asia he would seriously have to consider voting for the President...