Word: demonism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Shigeyuki Hori looks like your average Japanese salaryman, but at heart he's a speed demon. Once a week the Toyota engineer heads to the company test track at the base of Mount Fuji to try out new models. There he dons a crash helmet, and in a one-on-one communion between car and creator, he barrels his work-in-progress around a track at upwards of 120 m.p.h. The 51-year-old admits he's addicted to the speed rush. "When I'm out there on the track, I'm fearless," he says. Fearlessness has been a useful...
...Hitler, that the World Should Really Fear." Seuss' mascot for America, an eagle with an Uncle Sam beard and striped top hat, sits in stockades wearing an "I am part Jewish" sign on its beak and a public notice (signed by Lindbergh), "This Bird is Possessed of an Evil Demon!" Once the U.S. finally entered the War, Geisel fired his heaviest artillery: the Ameri-bird confronting huge German and Japanese mosquitos with a canister labeled "U.S. Defense Bonds - Stamps" and the caption, "Quick, Henry, THE FLIT...
...sidelines. There the head coach paces, barking orders into his headset, congratulating or chastising a player, wearing a sociopath's stern face as he silently prays he'll be baptized by a tub of Gatorade in the final minute of a winning game. The coach is a chess demon, planning dozens of gambits that depend on whether his quarterback throws for a big gain or gets sacked. He is a video-game whiz kid, and the playing field is his Grand Theft Auto Vice City. He is a field marshal and, sometimes, a counselor--General Patton and Dr. Phil...
Lurie keeps busy as vice president of Demon, a Harvard humor magazine, as well as secretary of Harvard Students for Healthy Babies. “Unlike my opponents, I’m not a council-only guy,” he says...
...introduced to Fox News chairman] Roger Ailes. I was thinking that Roger Ailes was sort of a demon, because he was the guy doing really important stuff. But we hit it off and I kept up with him. We kept talking about doing a once a week show that was really going to be a short half-hour show about the country, really fast-paced. Then he hired me in 1994, when he took over CNBC...