Word: demonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of this year's "revolutionary." productions-films like Z. Woodstock, Getting Straight, The Strawberry Statement, and M*A*S*H -provide such "safe outlets" and are easily assimilated into the Structure, generation a quasi-militant excitement and then exorcising it like a demon. They reduce revolution to a few thrills, chills, heroics, and laughs, and leave the audience emotionally "satisfied...
...show's many dance numbers are mesmeric revels. The cast is totally winning, and so are the demon drummer and his galvanizing group up behind the scrim. In midsummer New York, Golden Bat is a surprising tonic for which one can only say arigato...
...rival or burn the manuscript of the man she loves, her body lurches and twists in a jumble of conflicting drives to do the thing, not do it, and dissemble by doing something else. Her pale, strained face is a screen on which the shadow of one inner demon masters another, only to be mastered by a third. In keeping with the cinematically fluid rhythms of the production, Miss Smith cuts and dissolves from mood to mood like some dazzling montage sequence in a Bergman film. The wonder of it is that this is not a film, but stage...
...accept his sexual orientation until he was 23. By then he was married, the father of two sons and pastor of the Church of God of Prophecy in Santa Ana, Calif. When he finally faced his problem, the district elder to whom he spoke pronounced him demon-possessed and advised him to pray. "I told him I'd prayed till I was blue in the face, but it didn't do any good," says Perry...
Rose is in earnest about his good and evil. Taking Alan as his instance, he persuades the reader to see demonology as a metaphor of adolescence. At the turning of the teens, Rose suggests, a child is taken over by conflicting identities-opposing demons fighting for dominance. Furthermore, Rose hints, pointing at the papas and mamas, the middle-aged American, too, is still waiting for a demon to put a blaze in his heart and a fever in his imagination and lead him through some mind-blowing rites of passage...