Word: devil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Departments were wedded to traditional deterrence. Giving new emphasis to a defensive policy would be wrenching, and Reagan's then National Security Adviser, William Clark, was loath to upset his "client" bureaucracies. Thus when Teller obtained an audience with Reagan on Sept. 14, ) 1982, Clark attended as devil's advocate. He posed skeptical questions that tended to undercut the scientist's presentation...
...guess their name, you might think of the Devil's Disciples or the Beelzebubs. Or perhaps the Killer Bees, which is what the four young men on the stage look like in their tight leather-and-spandex costumes crisscrossed with garish black and yellow stripes. Piles of makeup, spiky hair and enough dangling chains to tie up half the elephants in Africa complete the picture of the up-to-date heavy-metal rock group. Even the music, the sound of a swarm of angry insects electronically amplified several thousand times, fits the image. But wait; don't walk away without...
...devil never pays; he robs like a thief in the night...
...desire), the ghastly Prudence Tomb (Martha Coffin). Rabid purveyor of the go rich-quick-after-B-School American Drench, Martha, ever the killjoy, nags at Ernest to do his reading between intermittent snatches of an idiotic love duet. Just as we begin to feel at home, the Devil appears once again, in a new guise, armed with a repertoire of tired Harvard Jokes, after enough references to "666" to exasperate even the most cretinous. He cajoles and coerces Ernest into agreeing to attend an interview with his "firm" Watch out. Ernest, we cry, but it is too late...
...occurs in Hell, the program informs us; yet, the skyline seen through the picture windows is suspiciously familiar, as is the interior. Shock of recognition, presumably: it is, in fact, an executive office, complete with intercom; and here's the Devil, complete with cigar and sinister Texan accent. Ah, the evils of big business. Ernest begins his meteoric rise to the top as overseer to the Seven Deadly Sins (Norma Lindabl), here a collection of painfully unwitty caricatures: Envy, for instance, wears a Yale sweatshirt. Bring on Lee Lacocca instead and spare us the trouble. Well-prepared...