Word: satanizing
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Like a fire-and-brimstone preacher, Farmer detailed the bloody torture and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Romans slashed his back until "you [could] see the intestines," he bellowed. "It was excruciating pain.... But Jesus did not fall. Satan attacked with fury, but he never fell...
...culture gets the kind of passive aggression that it needs. In the gaudier U.S., passive aggression is the ideal style of a television culture, of an overstimulated but vicarious race: postindustrial sofa-spuds whose contradictory cultural life swoops between hypothetical freedom and commercial manipulation. TV is the Great Satan of passive aggression: sedentary overhype...
Some of the routines work much better than others. The clever depiction of Lazarus' descent into hell as a breaking news story complete with a newschopper hovering between the Kingdoms of God and Satan was clever and fun. However, another scene narrated in a stereotypical French accent was just downright irritating. When two actors impersonating Siskel and Ebert exclaim after Frenchie finishes, "That was the worst scene I've ever seen," one can't help but not in agreement. Of the more than a dozen parable skits performed, too many were difficult to follow, easily forgotten and bother-some interruptions...
...execution on trumped-up charges of opposition leaders like Ken Saro-Wiwa. Farrakhan also praised the government of Sudan, which has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people in a long-running civil war, for its "wise Islamic leadership." In Tehran he pledged to help the mullahs overthrow the "Great Satan," as the U.S. is known locally. Then he moved on to Iraq to denounce U.N. economic sanctions--not mentioning that they are intended to ensure that Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons are actually destroyed...
Lewis is currently in Boston on the tour of the musical "Damn Yankees," in which he plays Satan...