Word: devil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...veteran Crimson defense, however, picked up the slack and refused to let any of the 12 Blue Devil shots past senior goalkeeper Jordan Dupuis...
...Jersey wants to be Las Vegas, but it falls short. Mike Tyson can tell you that. Kicked out of boxing for munching Evander Holyfield's ear in a prizefight at the MGM Grand on June 28, 1997, he asked forgiveness in New Jersey earlier this summer, but the devil entered him and cussed like a sailor...
...anguished cop with unsolved mysteries of his own. As dime-a-dance girls start showing up dead in St. Paul, Minn., in 1939, the men's paths intersect, and a story of guilt and innocence turns into a pulsing tale of redemption and original goodness, pitting God against the devil. If Mr. White's Confession occasionally feels like an old-time movie, at least it's the kind of decent Capraesque affair that used to fill the seats at the Majestic...
...natural tendency, spontaneous and universal." One of DePaulo's studies, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, showed that people told at least one lie a day, and that more socially adept folks stretched the truth more often than the less sophisticated. There's a reason the devil is always depicted as a smooth-tongued fellow. Facility breeds falsity. In the end, Presidents lie for the same reason everyone else does. It's just that the rest of us can't blame national security or cite Executive privilege when we say, "Yes, honey, I picked up the laundry...
John Maybury's Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon examines the English painter's long affair with a petty thief and his need to be the submissive partner in sadomasochistic sex. The film is broken into shards of images like shrapnel: coupled male bodies mime the exertions of Greco-Roman wrestling; Francis bends over for a whipping, or to be tattooed with a hot cigarette. Which makes the film both exquisitely observed and tough to watch...