Word: devil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Garland, tried to be creative. While browsing at Boston Costume, she decided to dress up as "an Amazon because it's something new. I'm always a witch." An amazon? The river, perhaps, or maybe the Imax movie. Alessandra Davin initially planned on being a hippie, and then the devil, but ultimately settled on "Dracula...because...um...I just thought of it." Clever! While all frightening characters were moderately popular, the Scream-murderer attire proved to be a particular favorite. Marta Bezoari said she wanted to go as Scream "because the older you get the scarier you wanna...
...mother dressed up as the devil "with little red horns on her head," Malan said. As a gesture of solidarity, several parents dressed in matching outfits with their children, said Nat Chakeres '02, a resident of Weld Hall who took first place in the men's category...
...trial, lead Microsoft lawyer John Warden accused Boies of trying to "demonize Bill Gates" and of casting Microsoft as "the great Satan." Bill Gates as Beelzebub is actually a familiar trope in computerland. The Internet is filled with discussion groups debating whether Gates is the devil and Microsoft the Evil Empire. Search the Web for sites that pair the words Gates and Satan, and you'll turn up tens of thousands of hits. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig was a court-appointed monitor in an earlier Justice Department suit against Microsoft before Gates' lawyers uncovered an old e-mail...
...world, a position that, like Queen of England and Archbishop of Canterbury, carried certain moral responsibilities. So was Clay planning to be yet another credit to his race, like Joe Louis and Floyd Patterson, or was he going to be the other kind of black champ, a devil incarnate, like Liston then and Mike Tyson...
...floated like a butterfly around such cliches. Instead of a saint or devil, why not both in one package? Or why not just go crazy and leave them guessing? On the day of the Liston fight, Clay summoned all the thespian training he had picked up in the rings of Louisville to go so thoroughly crazy that his vital signs went crazy too, and Liston was scared out of his mind. The worst mistake you can make in writing about Ali is to leave out the boxing, but Remnick's account of the fight that followed is so vivid that...