At the time, he was newly arrived in South America to start production on Fitzcarraldo – the giddy and occasionally brilliant saga that actually managed to make more demented the supposedly true story of a 19th-century Irish rubber baron who set out to build an opera house in the Amazon and ended up hauling a steamship over a mountain.
Terayama seems to have a productive lack of regard for historical trends and for place — the book leaps all over, as if four different generations had stitched together their portraits to make a demented whole.
At the time I remember thinking that Inland Empire might well prove to be the last feature he would ever make: a demented psychosexual twister; the film in which the director finally shook himself free from the moorings of conventional narrative and lit out for the wide blue yonder.
This shift is attributed to Smith's frustration over the band's labeling as a predictable gothic rock band: "My reaction to all those people ... was to make a demented and calculated song like 'Let's Go to Bed'".
The gutsy sound of the ORR's wind sections was tremendous in the exuberant vivace of the first movement, while the grainier tones of the strings made the demented physicality of the final two movements irresistible.
In one piece, Christian can create an erotic doll outfitted in a white latex bunny suit, flipping the peace sign with her tongue out, and in another, like Hysterical 8, use a similar face but make it look demented and slightly deformed.
It is, of course, these "demented" bits that make Black Lamb and Grey Falcon a great book of ideas.
These yelps of joy at first make her seem a touch demented (a bookstore clerk's silence suggests as much), a prejudice Mr. Leigh is delighted to demolish.
Even demented, they make more sense than the absurd world they've stumbled into.
Maybe he would decry "some item of corruption in the Nixon administration," put his employers "in a position where they have to make true some totally demented news story" or get "into a fistfight with Eric Sevareid," the CBS commentator.
