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...Lebanon's wealthier and more powerful Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims. Beyond all that, the Shi'ite fanatical fringe, inspired by the example of the Iranian revolution, wants to destroy the last vestiges of Western "decadence" in the Islamic world, particularly the presence of the U.S., that "Great Satan." Whether the hijackers of Flight 847 fitted into that category, or were exemplars of a more classical political terrorism, bent on achieving specific ends in the region, was not yet known...
...chilling scene, 40 middle-class citizens quietly file into a gaslit packing shed to hear a tirade against the agents of the Antichrist. First they hear a harangue, then on cassette the voice of an American who claims to have defected from the forces of darkness. The agents of Satan, he rants, include the Kennedys, Sears, Roebuck, the Rothschilds and the Council on Foreign Relations. On and on the babble continues: "Elton John and the Beatles actually sang in the secret language of witches . . . The pyramid on the dollar bill was the Illuminati's seal: The blocks of stone symbolized...
...third outing as the stand-up Supreme Being, George Burns, 88, adds a new wrinkle: he also plays Satan. Quotable quips from Writer Andrew Bergman (The In-Laws) include the Lord's back-lot zinger, "I put the fear of me in you," and Talent Agent Harry O. Tophet's devilish irreverence, "He had to close the big dining room up there." Tophet cuts a deal with a young songwriter (Ted Wass), offering fame in exchange for his soul. Director Paul Bogart's muzzy little comedy appropriately pivots on the Burns-Burns confrontation when Lucifer...
...expectancy was 35. If a 17th century woman should survive to old age, she was in danger of being taken for a witch. In a 1648 treatise, John Stearne explained witchcraft as a woman's game on the ground that females are more "revengeful" than men because of Satan's "prevailing with Eve." Such reasoning ensured that any rise in the standing of women could only be partial and restricted...
...Life and Times of Little Richard (identified in a subtitle as "the Quasar of Rock," should further amplification be required) chronicles, in no uncertain terms and in effulgent detail, both bouts with Satan and business with the Lord. The book (Harmony; $15.95) is the woolliest, funniest, funkiest rock memoir ever. It rambles from Richard's childhood in Macon to his current calling as a preacher for the Universal Remnant Church of God in California, with plenty of rest stops along the way, so that even the casual reader may catch a whiff of brimstone before, in the sermon that...