Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worried, the new boys come on like strangers in a world they never scripted. Some of them celebrate the horrors of modern life. They exhibit America as an air-conditioned cemetery for the walking dead, the war in Viet Nam as pure hell, and L.BJ. as a rather silly devil with his tail in hot water...
Kenneth Anger, 34, is the wild man of the movement and one of its most creative craftsmen. A fanatical occultist, he practices the blood rites of devil worship and has splashed the walls of his San Francisco pad with a Nazi banner and words written in blood. Anger's notorious Scorpio Rising is a jaggedly cubistic piece of black cinema that examines the big strong she-men who gun along with the cycle cult. The movie concludes with a satanic black-jacketed bacchanal that looks like the last stages of an amphetamine nightmare...
...toughs": hard cases who exact tribute in the form of sex and tobacco from the rank-and-file riffraff. It is intensely snobbish. "Crashers" (burglars) will not talk to pimps. Prestige is based on length of term, and a prison peerage goes to anyone who has served on Devil's Island or Cayenne (the now extinct French penal colonies...
...seats, in Washington. Dirksen, who had risen at 4:30 a.m. to gild his rococo verbiage, never found the time-or need-to consult anyone but himself. "I've tried that consultation business," he said, "and I find it takes a year to get a consensus. The devil with that. If they want to try me for party deviation, they...
...less outdated than validated by China's present upheaval. The thrust of Roots of Madness is, baldly, that 100 years of colonial humiliation and continuous civil blood shed left a fractious population unifiable only by tyranny and by a paranoiac "primitive hatred of the foreign devil...