Word: devil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after the melodrama, after the white devil disappears offstage, snarling like Cagney, a scruple (call it A.C.L.U. logic, a schoolmarm in the mind) begins to wave its little hand in the back of the hall. Easy cases make bad law, or bad principle. The powerful emotional sway of this one is unsettling...
...definitely. She's foxy; we had fiery chemistry (laughing). I improvised a scene in the movie where I fondled her breasts. Aren't I a devil...
...bondage films. He soon discovers the hard way that it's a world that's easy to enter but not so easy to escape. As he's told by Max (Joaquin Phoenix), an intelligent porn store clerk who serves as the obligatory sidekick, "When you dance with the devil, the devil don't change. The devil changes...
...collective pox on the parole board that ever sees fit to unleash this demon on society again," New York Supreme Court Justice Edwin Torres said in sentencing John Rosado to 50 to 100 years in prison, calling him the devil incarnate. "And if necessary, I will arise from my mouldy grave to visit it on them myself...
...over the 20th century, every decade has a melody, a rhythm, a sound track. The years and the sounds bleed together as we scan through them in our recollections, a car radio searching for a clear station. The century starts off blue: Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Then the jazz age: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and, later on, Benny Goodman and "Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." Midcentury, things start to rock with Chuck Berry, "Wop-bop-a-loo-bop a-lop bam boom!" the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, "a hard rain...