Word: devil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SADDEST FINISH. Swale, a game second-stringer from Woody Stephens' blighted barn, eclipsed the slightly damaged wonder horse Devil's Bag, who was treated to early retirement to protect a $36 million breeding future. Extraordinarily, but without showing extraordinary exertion, Swale won both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. Eight days later, probably owing to a heart lesion, he died...
...DEVIL GOT UP EARLY THIS MORNING, the headline in Ovaciones said afterward. Madrugó el Diablo...
...adaptation of his short story Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy, produced a Hollywood extravaganza so removed from the original that he still finds the whole subject extremely painful. But that setback didn't dissuade Isaac Bashevis Singer, 80, from launching two new plays off-Broadway. A Play for the Devil is currently running in Yiddish at the Folksbiene Theater, and a dramatic adaptation of his story Shlemiel, the First just closed at the Jewish Repertory Theater. Singer, who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature, has no illusions about the differences between drama and literature, however...
...DEVIL...
...cuts a deal with a young songwriter (Ted Wass), offering fame in exchange for his soul. Director Paul Bogart's muzzy little comedy appropriately pivots on the Burns-Burns confrontation when Lucifer and the Lord play poker in Caesars Palace to win the yuppie Faustus. Oh, God! You Devil has a shopping-mall message: Don't do drugs or dream of fame; go home, be ordinary. If only Gracie were alive to play the devil's advocate, this biblical vaudeville might have had a little more class...