Word: satanic
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...Governor Walter J. Hickel to succeed Stewart L. Udall as Secretary of the Interior - a job that Udall had performed with such ecological sensitivity that many thought he should be called Secretary of the Environment. At first glance, Hickel was so depressingly different that some reacted as if Satan had been promoted to guard St. Peter's gate...
...wrote hundreds of pages of grotesque "confessions": the devil visited her several times a day; he had walked beside her, his black fur glistening, at Holy Communion and often made love to her; he had promised her she could have ten sexually diverse husbands and rule the world with Satan. After months of piecemeal punishment, Bernadette's Calvary finally came on May 14, 1966. During a four-hour exorcism session, interrupted only for rest and prayer, the couple and four other men beat and tormented the girl with walking sticks, a riding crop and a rubber truncheon...
ROSEMARY'S BABY. Satan is alive and living at the Bramford, a haunted apartment house in Manhattan, where an ancient witch (Ruth Gordon) troubles a pregnant wife (Mia Farrow); both ladies are superb, thanks to the devilishly deft direction of Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion), who has a nifty horror hangup...
ROSEMARY'S BABY. Satan is alive and living at the Bramford, a haunted apartment house in Manhattan where an ancient witch (Ruth Gordon) troubles a pregnant wife (Mia Farrow); both ladies are superb, thanks to the devilishly deft direction by Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water; Repulsion), who has a nifty horror hangup...
Seen in isolation, The Fearless Vampire Killers is just a bad joke: a little kid's desire to let the bad guys win for once as realized by a thirty-year-old adolescent mentality. But Rosemary's Baby is on their side too; the witches win, Rosemary accepts Satan's spawn as her son, and Polanski's careful dating of 1966 as the year One (the black calendar beginning with the birth of the son of Satan) suggests that 1968 is the year Three, that all things malevolent are heartily thriving...