Word: demonism
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...course, the craving for crude that keeps the game going. Petroholic economies everywhere remain excessively hooked on Demon Oil. When consumption periodically eases back, as it has been doing moderately in the industrial nations during the past two or three years, it is not so much because of effective governmental policies or the shift to alternative fuels as it is because of economic weakness and fitful growth at home...
...what McCurdy called "as good a race as he has run all year," All-American John Chafee finished second, blistering home just behind Brown's speed demon Osman Lake...
...past few years, Zappa has become increasingly monomaniacal regarding his music, Though an iconoclast who deplauds seriousness of any kind, he works like a demon in the recording studio, With enough original material on tape to press at least twenty albums, he has long since become a faultlessly conscientious producer. And as a performer, he rehearses his bands unmercifully, six hours a day for months before a tour, "getting it right." The ultimate indication of his extreme nature is his renaming of the Mothers of Invention. They are now simply "Zappa...
...have to feel sorry for the Atheneum. It's 172 years old, its Beacon Street building needs repairs, and the demon inflation looms large. But just because the Smithsonian has $5 million to spend on two more portraits for the endless corridors of nameless faces in the National Portrait Gallery, doesn't mean the Atheneum should sell the portraits right out from under the MFA which has had them on loan since...
Sweeney Todd is one giant step for vegetarianism. Sweeney (Len Cariou), "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street," slits the throats of stray clients and deposits their bodies with Mrs. Lovett (Angela Lansbury), who has them ground up and served as meat pies in her pie shoppe. This musical is a black-comedy opera with helpings of ha'penny Brecht. Its underlying theme, and épater le bourgeois tone, is that man exists only to eat or be eaten by his fellows...