Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President of the U.S. had just imposed historic diplomatic and economic sanctions on Iran, including the expulsion of 35 Iranian diplomats, and had asked American allies to join in isolating Khomeini's government. But in turbulent Iran, where the U.S. and its President are routinely denounced as "Satan," surrealism reigns, and any clash with Americans has become a cause for jubilation. All week long, Muslim leaders whipped up an emotional frenzy against the U.S., reaching an even higher pitch after border clashes occurred with Iraq. "The U.S. hand has come out of Iraq's sleeves," ranted Khomeini, blaming...
...being burned--it was Jimmy Carter being burned in effigy, it was the face of Jimmy Carter being taunted and torched and hung, and the crowds were chanting "Death to Jimmy Carter" and "Death to America," and it was the Ayatollah who said, "Reject this--Carter is the great Satan," or whatever. So he became out of all of this the personification of the country in a time of trouble. He could have taken that moment and reached beyond the day-to-day political apparatus...
...redeemed, primped for "normal" society. But Wise Blood is not a Hollywood film, nor is it about normal society. In Huston's hands, Hazel Motes becomes not a hero or an anti-hero but a non-hero, one of us living out the internal battle between Jesus and Satan...
...16th century Scandinavia, does not seem calculated to appease them. The chief antagonists to emerge from much torchlit huggermugger are Lars-Goren, an idealistic Swedish knight, and the Devil, who decides to help Lars-Goren's kins man Gustav overthrow the occupying Danes and become King of Sweden. Satan's motive is chiefly to perpetuate unrest and chaos. History, after all, has been running on his side: "Magellan had recently circled the globe, opening vast new avenues for greed and war. Europe had more mad kings than sane, and the Devil had both the One True Church...
...legislation is pending in six states. After the Mississippi Civil Liberties Union decided to challenge its law, a group of parents and children in Rankin County requested an injunction against all prayers until the suit's resolution. Some local school board members promptly denounced them as "agents of Satan...