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...suddenly swept into an epileptic seizure. He goes stiff; his eyes roll up; his jaw is clenched. Except for his piglet squeals, he might have been dead for a minute or two. Children during grand mal attacks seem possessed; in the New Testament, epilepsy is referred to as a "demon." So the mother of an epileptic boy first looks at doctors as exorcists. But as she sees them prescribe a series of harsh medications, each creating side effects that the next is supposed to treat, she wonders if they aren't sadists--and if they know of a potential cure...
...enthralled by the film, or present us with visual candy, Branagh falls short on special effects, particularly with those for the ghost of King Hamlet. Perhaps attempting to prove his knowledge of Saxo Grammaticus, one of Shakespeare's main sources for Hamlet, in which Hamlet Senior is more a demon than a shade, Branagh plays up Hamlet's first meeting with his father after his death like a campy horror film. Hamlet runs, panting, through a forest of wind-bent trees, while smoke bellows out of the ground seemingly due to talkative dry ice--the disembodied voice of King Hamlet...
...November 27 editorial, "Demon's Humorless Antics," Justin C. Danilewitz faults a recent piece in Demon, written by Matthew A. Greenbaum '00, for its reference to "Schindler's List." Danilewitz writes that Greenbaum's fiction piece, which satirizes the Crimson Key Society at one point by showing the organization making jokes about "Schindler's List," is guilty of "question[ing]" the "tragedy" and "seriousness" of the Holocaust. Danilewitz goes so far as to say, "It is a sad testimonial to the legacy of our First Amendment that such material is considered to be imbued with enough expressive value...
...Demon's editors, though, would like to make clear that the reason we decided to print Greenbaum's piece without further revision has to do with the way in which the piece tears the humor found in the fictional depiction of CKS insensitively. Danilewitz realizes this. "Rest assured that I did not take this dialogue at face value," he says. He goes on to say that he knows that the author of the humor piece clearly had not intended to make light of the Holocaust. Yet Danilewitz still feels that the piece shouldn't have been printed because "There...
...Schindler's List. Greenbaum's humor relied on its dramatization of the idea that the Holocaust is not a joking matter. We regret that this may have caused some confusion, but we stand by our decision to print the piece as it appeared in our issue. --Jeremy Friedman '98,Demon Vice-President; Matt Stovcsik '98,Managing Editor; Juliet Rothschild '97,Business Manager; Chase Tingley '99,Assistant Managing Editor; Niffer Esty '97,Literary Editor; Matthew Greenbaum '00, Writer