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...Devil's Playground, an adolescent boy is shaped by his need to rebel against an emotionally repressive, provincial Catholic seminary. In The Last Wave, a middle-class lawyer is afflicted by sleep-splitting precognitive visions of approaching apocalypse. In Caddie, a young mother leaves her philandering husband and struggles to keep herself and her children alive as she descends into a Dickensian lower-class world. In The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, a 19th century black man is finally maddened by the mindless cruelty and patronization of the dominant group and goes on a murderous rampage...
Onstage, Gogol's characters look naturalistic enough, even transparently accessible, but it is the unseen company they keep-God, the devil and Russia-that lends them the strange dimensions of figures in fables. At one point in Marriage, a key character breaks into a paroxysm of laughter about the absurdity of just about everything. Then his face takes on an ashen look of desolation, and he says, "God have mercy on our sinning souls." Gogol uses such juxtapositions to go beyond tragedy or comedy into a realm that might be called cosmic farce...
...rumor start? Most of the burger boycotters cite a Phil Donahue TV talk show on which Kroc appeared in 1977. Yet transcripts of the show prove that there was no discussion of religion or the devil. Says Kroc. "I don't think holy-holy of our competition, but I don't think they'd stoop that low." The devil must have done...
Well, look who gave asylum to the Nicaraguan guerrillas: the new owners of the Panama Canal. Yes, the people of Nicaragua cheer the guerrillas, but that is only because the devil they have is the only problem they...
...urban centers and fight what they construe to be the enemy. MOVE members say they will eventually head for the halcyon hills, but only after the war is won. Fourth, the group is (perhaps the past tense is now more appropriate) quasi-religious in nature. Technology sometimes becomes the devil who possesses the police and politicians who oppose MOVE...