Word: devil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese, most of whom fled or whose parents fled the mainland since the 1940s red revolution, is being given into communist hands. This is the era of democracy; we are supposed to have won the ideological war. So how come Hong Kong is being voluntarily handed back to the devil...
...tense shoot-out between the warring factions, Connerly agreed to meet with opponents in the state legislature such as assembly member Murray to work on an outreach plan that both sides could live with. Then a remarkable thing happened. Some in the crowd--people who see Connerly as the devil himself--actually gave him a smattering of applause...
...sorry that your review of new animation and cartoon books [SHOW BUSINESS, May 19] failed to mention my father Robert McKimson, who was with Warner Bros. Cartoons studio as an animator and director from 1931 until it closed in 1963. He directed 175 cartoons and created the Tasmanian Devil, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester Jr. and the original Speedy Gonzales. He was nominated for two Academy Awards and was credited in 1944 by the Library of Congress as the author-artist of Bugs Bunny. The books you covered in this article did little to expose the artistic talent that was part...
Other staging effects contribute to the half-serious tone of the play: the Devil rises up from beneath the stage with a fine ominous flourish that is quickly and comically undercut by the revelation of his face, and the strains of Mozart's Don Giovanni are continually succeeded by Shavian reversals of the famous legend. Costumes, too, are magnificent, including a perfect reproduction of the turn-of-the century upper-middle class English motorist's get-up (frock coat, cap and goggles) and the impressively stony garb of the Statue...
...their best efforts still cannot prevent the sequence from dragging under the weight of the long speeches by Don Juan and the Devil. While the philosophical discussion is crucial to understanding Shaw's purpose in writing this play, it also interrupts the action and tends to lose the audience's interest. As the Statue puts it, "This is extremely abstract and metaphysical, Juan. If you would stick to the concrete and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow." While this remark shows that he has completely...