Word: torments
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...much hell. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, Russell may have been America's foremost scholar of Satan, having published five acclaimed tomes with titles such as The Prince of Darkness and Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World. But by the fall of 1987 he was suffering internal torment, compounded by a dreadful event in his personal life (a friend killed her son and then herself). "I was clinically depressed and spiritually in a very dark place," he says. "Fifteen years of studying evil was not an entirely healthy thing...
Beckmann's exile seems prefigured in the first of his triptychs, Departure, 1932-33. Its left and right panels contain scenes of horror, torment and dislocation: a man with amputated hands tied to a pillar, a woman in bondage about to be axed by a headsman, another woman with a lamp (perhaps a muse or a guide) to whom the upside-down corpse of her partner is bound. One cannot decode these too literally, but they presumably represent the chaos overtaking Beckmann's homeland. The center panel portrays the artist's dream of escape. The blue horizon (the color...
...overtime, the demons the Crimson had supposedly exorcised in its strong showing against Cornell came back to torment...
Yankovic and Foxworthy perform in concert as well, but the Jerky Boys (one failed movie aside) thrive only on recordings. Their one unvarying gimmick: merciless prank phone calls. On their latest album (Jerky Boys 3), they ring up pizza places and massage parlors and torment people at the other end with idiotic requests or unprompted verbal abuse. To callers responding to classified ads they've placed for power tools, the Boys babble psychotically and refuse to give any information. You know the album has gone awry when you start cheering the hang...
...McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign, butting heads over budget and turf with another West Side Democrat, Harold Ickes. Twenty-eight years later they're still at it: Ickes, now Clinton's deputy chief of staff for policy and political affairs, uses his control of the campaign purse strings to torment Morris. Eight years older than Morris, Ickes belonged to the Democratic reformers who had taken power on the West Side in the early 1960s. Morris came at them in 1969 as leader of the "West Side Kids," setting up his own political clubhouses, running a slate of candidates for party...