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Villagers prevailed upon construction workers to stop work until the dragon had been propitiated. Taoist priests were brought in to exorcise the demon. A member of the Man family predicted a "bloodbath" if government officials did not meet the village's demands. These included payment of thousands of dollars in expenses for exorcism and for hospitalization of stricken members of the Man family. For good measure, villagers mixed in a shakedown with their superstitions and demanded that the government construct a new drainage system and sidewalks for the village...
...book, although it spares us the Gethsemanic agonies of Blatty's metaphors ("the Kurd stood waiting like an ancient debt"). A famous movie star (Ellen Burstyn) and her daughter are on location in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., when the daughter is possessed by a raging demon-the Devil himself. To depict the permutations of this evil spirit, Director Friedkin and Writer Blatty go in for cheap shocks and crude novelty. There are gruesome details of an encephalogram being taken on the girl in search of some physical origin for her symptoms; there are also scenes showing...
...mind keeps playing all these little jokes on his lovers. When the professor kisses, deft quotes seem to materialize like subtitles on a screen. Harrumphs of academic self-approval seem to plonk into the nearest pillow as narcissistic asides. No matter how Stern tries to turn loose the Merriwether demon, it insists on fixing its tie, unwildly holding doors open, and speaking with a broad...
...been encumbered with such longings the barnyard vitality of early Disney would have been lost. When fine-art quotes appear in Disney's films, they are either apocalyptic and expressionist or else genteel: little in between. Their storehouse is, of course, Fantasia (1940). The cold crags and demon-infested clouds of the Night on Bald Mountain sequence refer straight back to the hellscapes of late-medieval religious art. Like many another image in Fantasia, it is also filtered through Art Deco, the popular style of the '30s. Using Deco idioms was as far as Disney ever went...
...clues to what makes Bobby run. Whole libraries could be filled with psychiatric studies of ministers' sons as rips and rakehells, and Bobby belongs among them. The son of a preacher of the Church of Christ, Bobby grew up in a house that was never cursed by demon rum or cards. Four older brothers had him running races, pitching baseballs, jumping fences and swinging from trees, usually against neighborhood boys his age, with a Saturday matinee held out as a reward. Says Riggs: "Everything was a contest, everything was a game, and I never lost that early drive...