Word: demonism
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AFTER THE REHEARSAL. A stage director rehearses Strindberg with his star pupil and falls a little in love. In this lovely "chamber movie," Ingmar Bergman describes his passion for the theater with Olympian irony and demon force...
...wind may have come sweeping down the plain in Oklahoma last week and--as far as the vote tally is concerned--scattered, this country's last official remnants of an earlier age when rum's first name was "Demon." But it's hard to tell just which way the wind really was blowing...
There are also fleeting suggestions, beneath all his mocking worldliness, of a slightly unquiet spirit. He is a demon for order and travels to the doctor's office with a shoehorn so he can replace his footwear easily after an exam. "He thinks he's ugly," says Ines, who will sometimes sneak up and start tickling him to make him smile. He frets over whether to have a nose job. His hands always seem to be in motion, partly because he is always moving his sleeves to hide them. That restlessness also colors his imagination, which...
...last week. "But until now we are waiting to find one of the mines to confirm our suspicions." Like his predecessor, the late Anwar Sadat, Mubarak has long been at odds with Gaddafi. Sadat once described the Libyan leader as "a vicious criminal, 100% sick and possessed of the demon." Mubarak's style is to be more restrained in his criticism of fellow Arab rulers, but he has often told visitors privately that he thinks Gaddafi is "crazy." Though reluctant to voice its suspicions, the U.S. apparently agrees. Brookings Institution Middle East Expert William Quandt said that he believes...
From this point on, things get complicated. Giselle meets the ghost of Poet John Berryman, still doing penance for his suicide jump into the Minnesota River. She also bears a demon child who invades the bodies of animals and people in order to kill all suspected enemies of ... Bob Glandier. In his tenth novel, Author Thomas M. Disch, 44, serves up such improbabilities with relish; the result is an entertaining nightmare out of Thomas Berger and Stephen King...