Word: devil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greased, Tabitha stopped smelling like an overgrown cruller, and the six-figure earnings soon became seven. "People think the muse is a literary character," says King, "some cute little pudgy devil who floats around the head of the creative person sprinkling fairy dust. Well, mine's a guy with a flattop in coveralls who looks like Jack Webb and says, 'All right, you son of a bitch, time to get to work.' " The ultimate workaholic obeyed the figure in coveralls every day, except for his birthday, the Fourth of July and Christmas. His work reflected more than the normal number...
AMID SUB-PLOT questions of heresy and devil worship, the relationship between William and Adso develops. Entrusted to William and the Church by his father, Adso is none too happy to to be in this haunted abbey. The change in Adso from the reluctant to the committed comes with his admiration for William...
There's already a clamor to climb aboard. Waylon Jennings, who can still hang tough and sing true, recorded an Earle tune called The Devil's Right Hand on his new album, Will the Wolf Survive. At a recent date in a tony Chicago club, an upscale crowd got joyously behind the heavy beat and the Duane Eddy- style guitar rumble of Earle's band, even as they paid respectful attention to such back-against-the-wall Earle lyrics as "I hit the beer joints every Friday night/ Spend a little money lookin' for a fight/ It don't matter...
Harvard did receive the books that Johnbequeathed in their entirety. Then in 1764 a firein Harvard Hall consumed all but one of the books.John Downame's folio, "Christian Warfare Againstthe Devil, World, and Flesh," was saved--because astudent had failed to return the book on time...
...wife cuts her hair as short as a man's and dyes it ash-white, and persuades him to exchange sex roles in a way whose mechanics are not explained. The man is to be the woman and the woman is to act the man. In bed, they do "devil things," also unexplained, and the wife brings a lesbian lover into their menage...