Word: demonized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...netsex clearly has its attractions. "It's not just the ultimate in safe sex," says Patrizia DiLucchio, a health-care consultant who runs the Eros conference on the WELL, a popular West Coast bulletin-board system. "It's also safe romance. It's like falling in love with a demon lover who knows just what you want and says all the right things." Several of DiLucchio's digital infatuations have blossomed into real-life love affairs...
Every President has a religion, in the sense of a creed that gets him and his supporters through the day. Ronald Reagan had two religions -- low taxes and traditional values -- plus a demonology, or at least a demon -- the evil empire. George Bush disestablished the Reagan religions and offered in their place little more than a belief in the sufficiency of his own good character, which is one reason he was a one-term President...
...Bram Stoker's Dracula"? Though the screenplay is more faithful than most vampire movies to the book's plot, its Dracula is light-years from Stoker's. The novel's count was no demon lover; he was a pestilence, the lord of bats and rats, and his touch was not romantic but rabid. He represented unseductive evil. Bram Stoker's Dracula proposed that English innocence could be sucked dry by European decadence, until English common sense drove a stake through its lurid heart...
Have you ever been tackled by a speed demon on all fours? Have you ever had an appendage or two almost completely taken off by a mad bicyclist? Or, more excitingly, have you ever come close to being lifted 30 feet up in the air by a non-driving, mindless, dare-devil behind the wheel...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is rarely attempted by amateurs. Like all Stephen Sondheim musicals it has tricky lyrics, complex orchestrations and a plot that's more than a little strange. Three hours spent watching a barber who cuts people's throats and a baker who turns the corpses into meat pies may make some audience members queasy. Sweeney Todd is by far the most operatic and most complex of Sondheim's shows. The production currently at the Loeb Ex is a brilliant reminder why the show is one of his best...