Word: mammon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directorial debut, Finney, who also plays the title role, has taken on a stupefyingly familiar theme: the writer who has sold out to Mammon. Wretched in his wealth, Charlie stumbles through life drunk, debauched and dull, until he decides to go home again to revisit his ex-wife and child in the North Country, where he was born. With him is a migratory bird (Liza Minnelli) who has journeyed from America to be his secretary. Their trip rapidly becomes a descent into the hell of present-day materialistic England. Superhighways stretch on into meaningless dark. High-rise buildings hover like...
...Mammon...
Somewhat less is known about the fallen angels than those who still reside in heaven, but Davidson nonetheless provides some background on 103 of Satan's allies. Focalor, a mighty duke who commands 30 legions of demonic spirits, has the special mission of sinking ships of war. Mammon is hell's ambassador to England. Rabdos can stop planets in their course. One of the least fortunate of devils is Azza, who is eternally destined to be suspended between heaven and earth as punishment for having sexual intercourse with mortal women...
Inside are 10,000 followers of Mammon: unworking men, grandpas, stiletto-heeled tooties, indescribables, a sprinkling of M.I.T. professors. They mill around the closed-circuit TVs. The long rows of betting windows, the hot dog and beer stands. They spill out to the open-air section by the track, concentrating most heavily by the finish wire. They wander back and forth eating popcorn, clutching the long "green"--scarecrows stuffed with money instead of straw...
...Horned Mammon. Some critics compare her to Grandma Moses, but, says Dealer Kalman, except for her age, there is no similarity between them. Rather than recalling childhood scenes, he explains, "this old lady has a very strong vision full of hallucinations and strange mystical places she has never, never been." Some of them are places she has heard about only over the radio; others betray a naive view of the outside world. One of her latest pictures, for instance, shows a horned Mammon being worshiped on Wall Street...