Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iranian connection to the Beirut conspiracy is quite plausible. Khomeini still refers to the U.S. as the "great Satan." His government is also furious at the French for selling five Super Etendard fighter-bombers to Iraq, with which Iran is at war. President Sayed Ali Khamene'i and Prime Minister Mir Hussein Moussavi have vowed "retribution" against the U.S. and France. The Iranian newspaper Ettela'at published a cartoon depicting Uncle Sam and French President Mitterrand being crushed to death by a huge hand bearing the legend "Lebanese Muslims...
...styles: the fabulist confined to his shtetl and the modernist who regards the universe as a stark and enigmatic combat zone. If Joseph Shapiro is disagreeable, he is never less than credible; once again the author displays a talent for mimicry that has previously allowed him to imitate Satan, fools, saints and, on one occasion, a rooster. True, his gift has been squandered on a man with no redeeming features, but for once Singer is not out to charm his readers. He and his penitent seem content to prove the old Yiddish proverb "Going backward is still a form...
...after Tony crossed the Brooklyn Bridge into the city of everyone's tattered dreams, he is stuck in a rut just off Broadway, teaching jazz dance by day, tending bar at night. Encouraged by his palfriend Jackie (Cynthia Rhodes), Tony auditions for the chorus of a musical called Satan's Alley-a sort of rock musical comedy version of Dante's Inferno-and falls for Laura, the show's star (Finola Hughes). Tony gets the job because, as the musical's choreographer tells him, "you have anger and a certain intensity. And that...
...always, Travolta is urban gorgeous and very charming. The rest of the film is neither. It brandishes the New York look, where every man needs a shave, and every woman a Porcelana rubdown. The Satan's Alley production numbers, full of grinding pelvises, heavy metaphors and a climactic ascending platform, have all the pretensions of Cats or a Bob Fosse musical but with none of the spirited style; this show would never get to previews. Stallone seems not to have noticed or cared. He heads off in opposite directions-toward 42nd Street and Flashdance Avenue-and loses himself...
...sanity: "If man be the messenger of man, why should a madman not be the messenger of God?" In one play, God himself is put on trial in the 17th century for crimes committed against the Jews. His defense attorney is a mysterious stranger who turns out to be Satan...