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...pieces: a possessed nun literally climbing the walls and patients in a mental ward going wild and murdering the staff. The show also managed to write one of its regular characters out of the series in possibly the screwiest manner in TV history. After being possessed by the devil, the fellow was transformed into a little boy and returned to his mother. A bit inconvenient for the family, perhaps, but in TV's world of horror, there are worse ways...
...where wheat and canola fields stretch from horizon to horizon. Then it is on to the Rockies, along ledges that would make an aerialist faint. It presses near the old Calamity Curve, through the Jaws of Death Gorge and, lest passengers have failed to get the message, into the Devil's Caldron...
...frightening feeling--sympathy for the devil--but not nearly as scary as what Bernays does with her women characters. The women of Bernays book, Anita in particular, are just downright unlikable. Bernays skillfully makes Anita into a stereotypical militant feminist--a hippie-turned-professor who uses gender-neutral terms and "carries around a great deal of anger...
...career record, without it. But it was not his inborn gift that made Pete Rose the symbol of what Americans consider a vital part of the national ethos. He was Charlie Hustle, the man who ran out even his bases on balls, who played with a boyish exuberance and devil-may- care abandon characterized by the belly-flop, headfirst slides that kept his uniform constantly dirty. He soared far beyond athletes who had vastly more natural grace. A whole generation of fathers told their Little League sons to play like Rose if they wanted to get the most...
Strange, though, are the ways of fate and fame. The movie shows Lewis' bravado being directed at his cousin, revivalist Jimmy Swaggart, who is portrayed at more or less regular intervals denouncing rock 'n' roll as the "devil's music" and praying for the redemption of Jerry Lee's blighted soul. But the real-life Swaggart has since been brought low by the revelation of particularly tacky sexual practices. Lewis' music, manner and morality now seem almost innocent in comparison with what has followed him up the charts and into the hearts of adolescents during the past three decades. Even...