Word: devil
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There is the early summer and the light of winter coming, and baseball embraces both. The musical Damn Yankees is the story of an old man named Joe who barters his soul to the devil to be made young again and help the Washington Senators win the pennant. As usually happens in such bargains, he changes his mind in the end, and the devil turns Joe old again just at the moment he is running after a high drive sailing for the stands. He was a young man when he started out after the ball...
...third in a series, might be considered bad, the way to approach it is by striking a deal: the movie won't ask for much, so you shouldn't ask for much. This way, the film acquires a scrappy appeal thanks to Chan's physical comedy and dare-devil feats...
...summer, when we all can take a moment and realize that the desire to control the rest of our family, or even suck the life out of them, is universal. As one of the signs in Ian and C.C.'s house reads, "God sends the meat and the Devil cooks." It's time to enjoy a little summer barbecue...
Disaster sends us looking for the devil. As the aftermath of Flight 800 showed, it is a terrible anxiety, a kind of low-grade moral infection, not to know exactly what evil you're up against...
...Hall. It is an image he cultivates, showing up at meets in leather motorcycle pants and cruising around in a customized 1962 purple microbus. When the Dead's Jerry Garcia died, Hall swam his next meet with a black band traced on his arm in felt-tip pen. His devil-may-care attitude, however, masks a troubled past. As an adolescent, Hall was an indifferent student who clashed with his parents and took refuge at friends' homes. But Hall idolized his maternal grandfather, Charles Keating Jr., a one-time NCAA swimming champion with whom he would shoot prairie dogs...