Word: netherworlds
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...interrogator's need to be respected by his victims is one notable feature of a vague, inchoate subculture that exists in every country where torture is an established practice. This shadowy netherworld is marked most obviously by a mocking language of euphemisms and code words. Some former prisoners report, for example, that at the notorious Sao Paulo torture center of the Brazilian political police, a torture session has been called a "spiritual seance," as if it involved a cleansing of impurities. Victims in Chile say that DINA interrogators refer to Santiago's infamous Villa Grimaldi as the Palacio...
...room was dark, and the sense of a netherworld was heightened by the almost complete lack of furniture and by the dampness that seemed to peel off the earthern walls. A crowd was gathered here, an animated crowd already for into the afternoon's cocktails. Five men sat shoulder-to-shoulder on a wooden bench, each either laughing or grinning in a euphoric state of intoxication. In the center, towering above all with his broad square shoulders and stout chest was Don Julio, the policeman of the village. The word "Don," a vestige of Spanish gentility, perfectly fitted the pride...
...issues of the family, the position of women, the cash transactions from patient to doctor. But problem patient as she might be, she is devout about the rule of the trade: "But first we must understand the problem." Make the unconscious conscious, burn the shadowy fantasies of your netherworld out of their holes. So to illuminate what happens in the mind in between conscious desire and conscious action. But analysis, a tool to explore the mind, Jong has somehow warped into a faith...
...production's overall atmosphere, neither tragic nor pastoral, settles somewhere in the netherworld of the mundane. A fairly simple set is not quite bare enough to avoid being distractingly eclectic. Nice touches, such as burning torches in the king's chambers and a flower-bedecked arbor in Bohemia, are offset by haphazard positioning of the settings and the action. The climactic resurrection of Hermione is blunted by clumsy staging. Though occasional flute passages are delightful, the music is generally sloppy...
...second, Mongo's Back in Town, was bought for $25,000 and turned into a TV movie that was shown last November. Like Johnson's others, Case Load-Maximum amply displays his ability to thread a meticulous plot line through the grit and slime of an urban netherworld where everyone has an angle too sharp for his own good...