"Dragnet" has turned into Alien or Predator or The Exorcist. And director Jonathan Demme has turned into William Friedkin or Ken Russel. I have always valued Demme's films (Something Wild, Melvin...
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I never read Conroy without thinking of him as illustrating Ernest Becker's now classic rendition of the Oedipal struggle in The Denial of Death (1973). Becker's thesis was that the...
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Earlier, in 1985, even more discouraging words came from Kenneth Briggs, former religion writer for the New York Times: "A few days ago I read about another one of those headlined 'steps' toward...
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