Word: demonized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard band Maxwell's Demon played last Saturday to a crowd of approximately 300 people in the Dunster House dining hall, band members said yesterday...
Maxwell's Demon, formed last fall, also features Eric Kattwinkel, Eisa Davis, Alejandro Canelos, Dallas Wrege, and Tom Chavez...
...risk of printing names of those accused of public sex was clearly demon-strated last October. Plainclothes officers arrested a retired schoolteacher from West Essex at a rest stop in the Herald Parker State Forest, charging him with indecent assault and battery (sexual contact without consent). The Boston Globe printed the man's name, apparently with no regard for the privacy or safety of his wife and four daughters. Within two days of the arrest and Globe story, the man was found dead in his garage with his car motor running and his wrists slit. The man's guilt...
Novels by Dame Iris Murdoch are about as sturdy and reliable as a well-made trench coat. The reader can count on several things from these lengthy dissections of the British intelligentsia, and the new installment, her 24th, is no exception. One can be sure, for instance, that demon lust and his faithful servant, self-deception, will make fools of the witty, wise and powerful. There will probably be a maddeningly masochistic woman and a childish, manipulative man. A young person, usually a girl, will act as an unsparing force of nature...
...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...