Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oedipus Rex: now there was a great mystery plot. The detective is the murderer; his mother is the femme fatale; his father is the victim. And Faust: a good chase tale. Guy sells his soul to the devil, then chases after secrets of life and death. Today, though, the mysteries are more mundane, the deals more damning. Like why in hell was Angel Heart -- a detective story about secret loves and profane pacts -- ever considered worthy of an X by the movie industry's rating board...
...Alan Parker was serious and free of titillation. The board's game was a sick joke at the expense of ambitious filmmakers, and it was resolved last week with the snipping of ten seconds of feral footsie. In the movie business, almost everyone has to make deals with the devil...
...collision between Catholic faith and morals on the one hand and Masai tradition on the other is spectacular. Perhaps the flies had come to seem to Davis the outward sign of the devil's presence here in the Masai enk'ang, home of polygamists and breezy pagan fornicators. But the goat was an ancient symbol of the devil. The theology was confusing. Perhaps Davis merely intended to endow one fly-free little life in the dense air of the boma...
...siege of Basra seemed to have turned up the pressure considerably on the Iraqi government. In a Baghdad radio address, Saddam referred to Khomeini's "human wave" assaults, accusing the Iranian leader of "appealing, as if the devil were between his eyes, for further men to push into the inferno of death." He repeated his offer for a peace settlement, which the Iranian government promptly rejected. Meanwhile, a government-controlled newspaper published a decree by the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council asking for volunteers aged 14 through 25 to enlist in the army...
...foolin' around. Gordon's Innocent, a collection of ten tracks, has the electrified, hypnotic, postminimalist drive familiar to mainstream audiences from the Talking Heads, but with a rougher, anarchic bite. Indeed, the album is a Who's Who of the downtown crowd: one song, The Day the Devil Comes to Getcha, has words by Laurie Anderson, and supporting musicians include Percussionist David Van Tieghem. Innocent is a walk on the wild Lower East Side, a long way from Lincoln Center...