Word: satanic
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...Factory, trying to get a handle on what was going on. Gradually I made the acquaintance of a pensive, moody and occasionally aggressive young man from Oregon. He had taken too much acid back in Portland, he told me, freaked out, and killed a game warden. Now Satan...
Wrongheadedness and bizarre tales abounded. Warner Bros. had filmed The Maltese Falcon twice before Director John Huston got hold of it, first under the clanking title Dangerous Female, then as Satan Met a Lady. Studio biggies were narrowly headed off from calling Huston's version The Gent from Frisco. Before Humphrey Bogart got the starring role, it had been turned down by George Raft, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson. Edward C. Judson, a middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train...
...same folks who called us "The Great Satan" are now calling us liars. Hashemi Rafsanjani, the Speaker of Iran's parliament, has accused the U.S. government of lying and making up "new lies to whitewash the scandal facing them." And, sadly enough, I think he is probably right...
...could stay in sympathetic touch with so-called moderates in Khomeini's government. That, the 86-year-old Ayatullah quickly & made clear, would happen only over his dead body. Speaking with his old-time pungency, Khomeini implied that those Iranians who had been dealing with the "Black House" were "Satan-oriented," and cried, "May God get rid of the insurgents in this country...
...warning signal should have gone up when the Iranians started asking for arms. The White House argues that the Iranians involved were taking great personal risks dealing with a nation that the Ayatullah Khomeini regularly denounces as the Great Satan. The Iranians had to be assured that the emissaries they met were acting with Reagan's authority, and so they demanded arms transfers that only the President could authorize. Perhaps so. But it is also possible that what they were really doing was subjecting the U.S. to a crude form of blackmail...