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“Howling Furies” – Anthrax

August 22, 2020 By lsanchez

“Howling Furies” from Anthrax’s 1984 album Fistful of Metal, which has the opening lines of “Abandon all hope for those who enter.”

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 1984, Abandon All Hope, Metal, Music

John Sayles, Brother from Another Planet (1984)

July 19, 2014 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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The main character, an escaped slave from another planet, meets a character who calls himself “Virgil,” a rastafarian who speaks in verse and helps guide The Brother through a dark moment.

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 1984, African American, Science Fiction, Virgil

Seamus Heaney

August 31, 2013 By Professor Arielle Saiber

 

Seamus Heaney“In ‘Station Island’ (1984) — a dazzling reworking of Dante, set on an Irish island known for centuries as a place of religious pilgrimage — all the themes of Heaney’s work come together in an orchestral whole. Here, the present, past and myth merge and overlap, and the competing claims on an artist emerge in the form of ghosts: literary ghosts, ghosts from the poet’s own past and ghosts from Ireland’s past: a young priest ‘glossy as a blackbird” and a shopkeeper cousin shot in the head, who ‘trembled like a heat wave and faded.’ ” […]    –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, August 30, 2013

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 1984, 2013, Ireland, Poetry

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