Word: nightmarish
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...before she died, her parents said, Anneliese performed an astonishing 500 deep knee-bends in one day. The source of her power, her parents believed, was nothing less than the devil himself. Anneliese's release from evil spirits came only with death, after she starved herself during a nightmarish ten-month series of Roman Catholic exorcism rituals. Two weeks ago, a court in Aschaffenburg found two priests and Anneliese's parents, wealthy Mill Owner Josef Michel, 60, and his wife Anna, 57, guilty of negligent homicide in her death. The four, who last week appealed their convictions, drew...
...Testament, terrible in the weight of his beard and vast wings, waking the serpent-bound Adam to a life of toil and subjection. And his sense of dramatic terribilità, in the midst of the grotesque, was unparalleled. Few demonic images in Western art radiate such a nightmarish charge of sexual energy as The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, 1803-05. Based on Revelation 12: 1-4, it stands at the extreme opposite end of the scale of feeling from Blake's lyric inventions, the visions of Eden, of childhood and angelic morning stars...
...Fury. This should have been Brian DePalma's goony epic, a lavish, blood-soaked tale of telekinesis (remember "Carrie"?) and international spies. But John Farris' screenplay turns the sumptuous ingredients into--well, nothing; and although certain scenes leave shivery impressions with their nightmarish silliness, DePalma has paced the film slackly, with none of the mounting horror of his previous efforts. Kirk Douglas, Amy Irving, John Cassavettes, and especially Carrie Snodgrass are wonderful. But don't take a liking to any characters--eventually you will see them lovingly mauled before your eyes. John Williams has provided another goffily bloated score...
...money is beginning to roll in at just the right time; after three nightmarish years, Britain is finally getting its economy in order. Much of the credit goes to the International Monetary Fund, which a year ago made available $3.9 billion in loan money to Britain in return for a severe austerity program. The IMF loan prevented a collapse of sterling. A long period of voluntary wage restraint, accepted by Britain's powerful trade unions at the Labor government's prompting, has reduced inflation from a Latin American annual rate of almost 27% in August 1975 to a still high...
Under a relentless assault from cut-rate foreign competitors, the nation's steel industry has suffered through a nightmarish year. Steel imports have increased about 50% just since 1975 and in some months this year have captured 20% of the U.S. market. Combined with lackluster domestic demand, that foreign invasion has caused shutdowns of old mills, forcing more than 60,000 workers out of jobs in the past year. Steel executives, union men and a new caucus of Congressmen from steel-producing areas have brought heavy pressure on the Carter Administration to do something. The President's first...