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...missionary into a thatch-roofed house and heard him address a dozen squatting men until early morning. Only when DeVoss was leaving did he discover that he had been sitting beneath a fetish shelf of bat wings and chicken feathers in the home of the village's demon priest. Indeed, the story threw many TIME correspondents into unsettling situations. After spending five weeks in Central and South America, sidestepping bushmasters, vampire bats, tarantulas and poisonous caterpillars, New York Correspondent James Wilde began to absorb some of a missionary's faith. Ten times his plane braved door-mat-size...
Another fast-growing youngster that has stolen business from the leaders is Imagic, which was incorporated just 18 months ago. Its popular cartridge, Demon Attack, was chosen the "game of the year" by an industry magazine, and the company's revenues are expected to reach $50 million this year. The firm had planned to cash in on its popularity and go public this month, but when the other shares got zapped, Imagic's stock offering was postponed...
There is certainly nothing boring about this Rake. For all its flashy images, the production captures the opera's cautionary moral spirit. Russell, however, is more concerned about a contemporary demon. Tom and Anne are watching TV as the opera opens, and the commercials excite his desire for the wealth flaunted by Nick Shadow. At the end, having fought off one devil, Tom gazes at the other-a TV screen-with fellow mental patients. In a chilling coup de théátre, the principals are led into the asylum, gibbering as they warn of the dangers of idle...
...meditations on the good old days: "Remember lingerie?" The refiners are led by Pappagallo (Mike Preston), who carries the weight of his predicament with swaggering dignity, and Feral Kid (Emil Minty), an eight-year-old who growls in anger, purrs with pleasure, performs backflips into burrows and wields the demon boomerang. His counterpart in the marauders is Wez (Vernon Wells), a Feral Kid gone wrong. War-painted and Apache-coiffed, Wez has a mind that performs acrobatics of sadism and a scream that sounds like stripped gears. But Wez is a Muppet compared with his leader, the lord Humungus (Kjell...
Popularity is one measure of a performer's achievement, but in this case it is the least compelling. Pryor is not a flash, a freak, even a one-man trend; he is the soaring demon angel of movies, concerts and Grammy-winning albums. As a comedy monologuist, Pryor is without peer. Drawing his material from the black hole of ghetto life and death, Pryor uses his dramatic power to magnetize his listeners into the fire-flash fear of the moment-even as his skewed comic perspective offers distance, safety, reassurance. As a straight actor, he has the uncanny knack...