Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kept me awake for twenty-four hours at a time," Wilson said, describing his deprogramming experience. "One man would sit with his face twelve inches from me, bring a lamp up to my ear and launch into a third degree, accusing the church's spiritual leader Moon, of being Satan incarnate, a con-man and a snake. They ripped Reverend Moon's picture, and told me I was a pimp, a prostitute and a piece of trash...
...Middle East in which Washington has no influence with either side-and, indeed, is being blamed by both parties for fomenting the conflict. Iran, of course, is still holding 52 American hostages, and it regards the U.S., in the words of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, as "the great Satan." Iraq is a Soviet client whose military forces were trained and equipped by the U.S.S.R.; though Iraq has hinted that it would like to establish ties with the U.S. too, the State Department has no contacts with Iraqis of Cabinet rank. It was to Moscow, not Washington, that officials of both combatants...
...Iranians were inspired by Khomeini, who railed against Iraq's "godless" rulers, dismissing them as pawns of "the great Satan." Saddam was an "infidel guilty of blasphemy." What particularly galled the Iranians was that in the wake of the revolution, Iraq had given sanctuary to a force of some 3,000 Iranian soldiers now known as the Iran Liberation Army and gathered by General Ghoylam Ali Ovisi, 59, the former military commander of Tehran. The I.L.A. was not involved in last week's fighting but was reportedly ready to move into Iran behind the Iraqis...
Ramos grew up watching the South Bronx being burned alive, building by building, block by block. When he turned eleven, he was already a man. As initiation to a street gang called the Sons of Satan, he had to run a bloody, 20-yd. gauntlet of flaying fists. "I stole, beat up on people, hit on my teachers," Ramos confesses, "just to prove I was bad and not a punk." He had seen a dozen men shot or stabbed over drug deals and street-corner dice games. He had faced a man with a revolver who was threatening to blow...
...play opens with Zuss and Nickles, actors in a preternatural traveling circus who sell balloons and peanuts between performances. Casting themselves as God and Satan, the two plan a dramatization of the Book of Job, conjuring up their own world right there in the circus tent and using an unsuspecting J.B. in the role of the lucky man who has everything he cherishes--family, money, health, happiness--destroyed as a test of his faith in God's goodness. From a high platform, the two look down on J.B. and his exuberant household and plot the tragedies that will befall...