Word: demonism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't the entire organization taken to the Ad Board? Was it because they had a certain tradition or tenure with the community? It can't be because the 'Poon is exceptionally funny. Additionally, if distaste is legitimate grounds for probation, why not expel the entire staff of the Demon, whose scatological and sexual humor must irk at least the most prudish amongst us; surely they would find it "socially unacceptable...
Some problems just never go away. All season long, the Harvard men's water polo team has been fighting a demon and has never been able to come out the victor when it counts...
There is a score to settle next weekend and the Crimson has one last chance to rid itself of the demon which has been plaguing it all season...
...Hortense in a restaurant that is completely devoid of waitstaff and customers). But in others, Leigh has composed the screen with the care of a painter: here, Maurice sits brooding in a bar such that we expect to see a glass of absinthe; there, a ringing phone becomes a demon in the dark as Cynthia nervously approaches...
Hare's plays usually teem with ideas and political passion. He took on the British justice system in Murmuring Judges, postwar disillusion in Plenty, the church in Racing Demon. Skylight is a more modest piece, essentially a two-character drama about a wealthy restaurateur who arrives at the bleak little flat of his former mistress and tries to rekindle their affair. First we learn, rather tediously, the background of their relationship: they met when she went to work at one of his restaurants; she left him three years ago; his wife has since died of cancer. Then, after some getting...