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...most of this century, Isaac Bashevis Singer has spoken for a great and ancient minority: demons. In his fiction, they install themselves in mirrors to afflict women with vanity, render bridegrooms impotent on wedding nights, knock over Sabbath candles, spill poor men's dinners. "The demons," he says, "represent to me, in a sense, the ways of the world. Instead of saying this is the way things happen, I will say this is the way demons behave...
...water, which came from Wednesday's storm, filled the shop with three feet of water and caused hydraulic oil from the elevator to spill out on to the floor...
...winter, at night rather than by day, and half the time he rapes the victim in her home. He is usually poor and, like three-quarters of all rapists, he was sexually abused as a child. But experts say the statistics are too sketchy to categorize rapists; the exceptions spill across all social classes. Says Judy Ravitz, executive director of the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women: "They're your employer, the people who go to school with you, anybody." Fred Berlin, a psychiatrist who runs a clinic for sexual offenders at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, says...
...crew members ran for the lifeboats, the flames ignited the cargo, which had begun to spill into the sea. For most of the day, the tanker burned, sending thick coils of black smoke rolling hundreds of feet into the air and bathing the area in an eerie orangish glow. Strong westerly winds blew a 75-mile-long cloud of choking smog toward shore, depositing thick black goo on houses and cars and coating newly shorn sheep with an oily film. Up to 25 miles inland, farmers reported an "oily rain" falling on their crops...
...Turkish government for allegedly sanctioning the Armenian cause and for tolerating more than 40 attacks against Turks in the space of eight years. Now the French are not safe from Armenian rancor either. After Parisian authorities arrested Armenians suspected of being responsible for the Orly bombing, ASALA threatened to "spill more blood" unless the captives were released. Given the terrorists' record, there was every reason to believe that past grievances would continue to generate future casualties...