Word: satanizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Black: that simple phrase, applied to the look and sound of the man it described, contained the heaven-and-hell contradictions in the personality of Johnny Cash. He could be a backwoods minister, warning of the Apocalypse in an Old Testament voice, or Satan himself, smiling sourly at the world's capacity for hurting itself...
...known facts and spirit of Jesus' life, to show respect and be plausible. The novel reader wants drama and action. Seven-year-old Jesus is largely the good little kid you would expect, and he makes the novel reader in you a teeny bit impatient. When Jesus bumps into Satan in a fever dream, Satan says to him, mockingly, "I'm watching you, angel child! I'm waiting to see what you mean to do." It's hard not to have a little sympathy for the devil...
...foliage, landscapes and animals. She was also inspired by local retablos - naive pictures given as votive offerings to saints for miraculous recoveries. Unrescued, Kahlo presents herself, bleeding like a martyr. Later she turned to mysticism, and her paintings became overburdened by symbols, with Karl Marx and Jesus meeting Satan and monkeys. She liked to paint herself with simians, often with an arm round her shoulders (Self Portrait with Monkey, 1940, above). Kahlo's work, like the monkeys, retains a wild, playful quality...
...foliage, landscapes and animals. She was also inspired by local retablos?naive pictures given as votive offerings to saints for miraculous recoveries. Unrescued, Kahlo presents herself, bleeding like a martyr. Later she turned to mysticism, and her paintings became overburdened by symbols, with Karl Marx and Jesus meeting Satan and monkeys. She liked to paint herself with simians, often with an arm round her shoulders (Self Portrait with Monkey, 1940). Kahlo's work, like the monkeys, retains a wild, playful quality...
...Hollywood stars, complete with photographic evidence. To wit: Parts of Courtney Love's new, larger body "are sort of sloshing around, uncontained, like a Big Gulp spilling all over your gear shift when you take a turn too fast." Chloe Sevigny proves "high-waisted pants are the spawn of Satan's sewing machine...