Word: devil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEVIL BY THE TAIL. Another slight and savage comedy by Philippe de Broca, Devil follows a slick Gallic seducer (Yves Montand) on his rounds. Montand could well become the new Bogart if he weren't already so good as the old Montand...
...critics had grounds for apprehension - but on quite another score. They were gathered for the American premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki's The Devils of Loudun by the Santa Fe Opera, a troupe known for its firm (and rare) conviction that contemporary opera deserves a place right alongside the old favorites. The Devils is a highly unorthodox piece of music. At earlier performances this summer in Hamburg and Stuttgart, it had been greeted with as many pans as praises (TIME, July 4). Santa Fe once more was sho ing its devil-may-care spirit in risking, along with the tried...
...DEVIL BY THE TAIL Another slight and savage comedy by Philippe de Broca, Devil follows a slick Gallic seducer (Yves Montand) on his rounds. Montand could well become the new Humphrey Bogart if he weren't already so good as the old Yves Montand...
...which he is pinioned in the second act. Even if Mayer has chosen to mute Job--as he muted Christ--and give a raucous verbosity to his tormentors, there is no excuse for throwing away what lines the character does have. The female lead, Susan Channing, as the Devil, superb actress she is, was so wonderfully bratty, saucy and puckish that it is hard to imagine what liberties she will take when she has fully mastered her part. Michael Dobbson clowns splendidly in a mime of Jonah and the whale--a mime set to cello music in a kind...
...manipulations. The SEC has also been prodding brokerage houses to clean up the continuing paperwork mess in back offices. On the major issue of overhauling commission rates, however, Budge has left it to the stock exchanges to develop detailed proposals. He believes that the SEC should only act as devil's advocate, asking questions about any proposed changes to make sure that no important considerations are overlooked. This approach annoys some high stock-exchange officials, who want specific guidance as to what sort of new schedule the SEC would accept...