Word: belial
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...movie isn't handsome or measured or seamless -- the very notion of a well-made film would offend the director's antiaesthetic -- but once it gets revved up, Cry-Baby is keen fun from the onetime Belial of Baltimore. From now on, Hollywood, that's Mr. Waters...
...Kilty will seem to end a sentence, make to move, and then turn back as though to add an afterthought. This is Falstaff exactly, one who loves to spout a comment and then vary it, amend it, augment it, or top it -- and one who, as Milton said of Belial, "could make the worse appear/The better reason, to perplex and dash/Maturest counsels...
...snow came fluttering down, conveniently, on the weekend, the first real fall of the season in many areas. It ended four days later as one of the century's wickedest storms, a Belial of a blizzard that disrupted life for millions in the eastern third of the nation and caused at least 208 deaths...
Film Fair. After that one, the most discussed picture is Parable, presented at the Protestant and Orthodox Center. Its central figure is a whitefaced clown. The circus is operated by Magnus the Great-a kind of Barnum and Belial character who sits in his tent and manipulates human marionettes strung on ropes high in the air. The whitefaced clown releases the ropes that hold the marionettes and frees them from bond age, replacing them himself. Stabbed by the agents of the malevolent Magnus, he is lofted on high, bleeding and suffering. He lets out a cry of agony and dies...
...nobody trades with Wiltshire. His "wife," it turns out, is taboo. Case, the other trader, has craftily skewered him -and there follows an adventuresome confrontation of good and evil as Wiltshire struggles for his existence against this betel-nut Belial who once went to Oxford and who now wears sharks' teeth around his neck and spooks the entire island with his weird, wicked acts and weirder metaphysics. "The ghosts of beautiful women," he says, "fly backwards so that you cannot see the worm marks on their faces...