Word: beelzebubs
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...grounds for dis ease. With rare exceptions, however, man through the ages has been instinctively entomophobic, or afraid of insects. Not for nothing did the ancient Israelites give Beelzebub, or Satan, the title of "Lord of the Flies...
...1960s reverberated to rock. The walloping folk rock of Bob Dylan sang a striking counterpoint to the sweet-sour, sometimes thunderous eloquence of the Beatles at their best; the psychedelic star shells launched by the Jefferson Airplane soared over the Beelzebub beat and leer of the Rolling Stones. And now, suddenly, the '70s have brought a startling change. Over the last year a far gentler variety of rock sound has begun to soothe the land...
...fireman spent an hour in trying by "hollering," chasing, forcing, coaxing, pelting, praying, beseeching, and cursing to induce that calf to leave the track. It only meandered slowly along, just a "lectle grain ahead." They all returned finally to the train. Bill furiously swearing, "By the holy horns of Beelzebub, if I bust my biler, I'll run that blasted critter down." The tender was emptied into the boiler, and the fireman sat on the safety-valve, and we ploughed along like an enraged elephant whose legs have been cut off by a circular saw. Still that calf kept...
...control. At times, Benjamin seems to be playing Dustin Hoffman's gawky second cousin rather than the acrimonious Neil of Roth's story. The film's observations of the nouveau riche Patimkins are subtle enough-until a parody of a Jewish wedding that looks as if Beelzebub had personally catered the affair. Too many of the camera's juxtapositions are vulgar or obvious or both: the hollow of a navel introduces a swimming pool, an embracing couple becomes a side of roast beef, the jock is shown carefully laundering his athletic supporter...
Divorced. David Merrick, 54, Broadway's hitster and resident Beelzebub; by Jeanne Gibson Merrick, 38, former publicity director of London's Savoy Hotel; on grounds of "incompatibility of characters"; after 19 months of marriage, one child; in Juárez, Mexico. After the divorce, the ex-Mrs. Merrick placed a public notice in the New York Times: "My husband, David Merrick, having left my bed and board, I will no longer be responsible for his debts...