Word: demonism
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...found echoes in Europe. Particularly so in the efforts of Goya, who sometimes drew on English satirical prints as sources for his own graphic work. One can detect more than a few appropriations of Rowlandson in the Caprichos. And one of Goya's scariest images, They Preen Themselves -- one demon giving another a pedicure -- seems to come from Rowlandson's group of a woman cutting an officer's toenail in The French Barracks, 1786, though how Goya actually got to see this particular Rowlandson is a mystery...
...racy double entendres on The Golden Girls, network TV on Saturday night is a pretty tame affair. Twist the dial a few notches, however, and there's mayhem aplenty. One evening a few weeks ago, a man was impaled on the handle of a hay rake by a wolflike demon that had risen from hell at the behest of a satanic cult. A couple visiting an art gallery wondered why the sculptures of terrified people looked so unnervingly lifelike. (Any guesses?) And Freddy Krueger, the razor-clawed maniac from the Nightmare on Elm Street films, was back...
...think long and hard before opening markets any further. In coming months Japan and the U.S. are to start talking about changing Japan's arcane retail-distribution system, which American businessmen perceive as a primary obstacle to getting their goods into Japanese stores. The L.D.P., hardly a speed demon in trade talks, will now be forced to move even more slowly, both to protect itself politically and to accommodate the strengthened voice of the protectionist J.S.P. Hiroshi Nukui of the Socialists' policymaking board gave Washington a hint of what lies ahead. "We value U.S.-Japan ties," said Nukui...
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE. This biopic stamps demon rocker Jerry Lee Lewis as a feral innocent in a time warp, instead of a sexual threat for Middle America. Dennis Quaid inhabits Jerry Lee with a nicely calculating recklessness, and Winona Ryder is hypnotically enigmatic as the singer's nymphet bride...
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE. This bio-pic stamps demon rocker Jerry Lee Lewis as a feral innocent in a time warp, instead of cottoning to the sexual and class danger he held for Middle America. But Dennis Quaid inhabits Jerry Lee with a nicely calculating recklessness, and Winona Ryder is hypnotically enigmatic as the singer's nymphet bride...