Word: devil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mouse. She lifts him to the glacier-like promontories of her bosom, and poor Antonio drops his umbrella into the crevasse. She plucks it out disdainfully, like a black toothpick, and darts it at him. As the fantasy continues, Dr. Antonio dons medieval armor to tilt against this she-devil whom he must kill for fear of loving. Next morning, white-coated asylum attendants pry the demented doctor loose from the top of the billboard...
...Devil Water, Seton...
...Devil Water, Seton...
...building's detractors call it Radio Coventry). The long, saw-toothed east wall that runs along Coventry's crowded Priory Street is undecorated except for Sir Jacob Epstein's imposing four-ton figure of St. Michael staring down in triumph and compassion at the chained Devil. To Spence, the exterior is "like a plain jewel casket with many jewels inside." The church is entered through an open porch that connects St. Michael's ruins to the huge glass screen that forms the new cathedral's south wall. Through the glass, the new cathedral...
...been on top-or near it-for twelve years is Belgium's hawknosed Rik Van Looy. To his fans, Van Looy is "the Emperor." To his competitors, he is "the Devil." Badge of the Fastest. At 28, an age at which cyclists were once considered washed up, Van Looy is at his peak, winner of more races (323) than any other cyclist in the world. He has won the world road-racing championship the last two years running, and he proudly wears the rainbow-striped shirt that is the badge of the world's best cyclist...