Word: satanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Characters from all three works cavort simultaneously amidst the vegetation of the Currier House dining hall's terrarium, wearing tie-dyed clothing (and tie-dyed faces) and uttering clever, non sequitur one-liners. A strobe light gradually speeds up throughout the play. In the background plays what sounds like Satan's own version of the score from Flute, diced and spliced, with an electronic drum track. Every half-minute or so, the music becomes so loud that the actors stop talking and start dancing...
...cupboard was bare, but ratings were huge, and Rivera followed up with melodramatic specials on such topics as drugs and death row, as well as with a daytime talk show. This week he returns to network TV with a two-hour special on NBC, Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground. The sometimes graphic show dwells on criminals purportedly influenced by satanic beliefs, among them a 14-year-old boy who slashed his mother's throat and then committed suicide, and Robert Berdella, a Kansas City man under investigation for multiple tortures and murders...
...holy land, men who labor under the twin burdens of poverty and occupying oppression. Their clothes are dirt-dry and sweat-drenched. Their faces, most of them, boast Semitic heritage; their voices hold the raspy, urgent cadences of Brooklyn, Appalachia and other frontier outposts of working-class America. (Only Satan and the Romans speak with British accents.) By jolting the viewer to reconsider Hollywood's calcified stereotypes of the New Testament, Scorsese wants to restore the immediacy of that time, the stern wonder of that land, the thrilling threat of meeting the Messiah on the mean streets of Jerusalem...
Another ad boasts "Dark Secrets of the New Age", an "urgent message for Christians, warning them of Satan's plan for a One-World Religion." Another book "reveals the demonic forces" behind Satanism in the United States...
...Christ's disciples. Mary Magdalene as the former girlfriend who still tempts the Saviour and haunts his fantasies. John the Baptist as the center of a hysterical cult. And Jesus himself as a reluctant leader, subject to paranoid visions, uncertain if he is heeding the call of God or Satan. These are the unorthodox interpretations to be found in The Last Temptation of Christ, a new film directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the 1955 Nikos Kazantzakis novel...