Word: devil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...zillion tortured teen movies of the '50s, NBK creates two doomed maniacs busy mythologizing themselves. "We got the road to hell in front of us," Mickey tells his bride, and he's not lying. These kids get their kicks on Route 666; when they go traveling, the devil thumbs a ride...
...lights finally went down, and the Allman Brothers began with "Sailing Across the Devil's Sea," a tune from their new album "Enlightened Rogues." This was followed by solid deliveries of a pair of their earlier works, "Statesboro Blues" and "Blue Sky." This was the kind of guitar work I had come...
...Devil's Dilemma in Rwanda...
...fidelity on these new-fangled recordings is too high, but Jagger just isn't the same when he's not whining, yelling or being ground into dirt by Richards' hard-driving guitar. The pure, intense noise of concert lightning such as "Start Me Up" and "Sympathy for the Devil" is certainly and sadly gone...
...apart, but the black politicians, thugs and businessmen they encounter are just as inventively corrupt as any alderman back in Indiana. At one point a wily middleman recommends that Boone employ a seer. Are his visions guaranteed to be accurate? Errors do occur, it is admitted. "What if a devil or a witch or an angry ancestor interferes with the divination process for its own purposes, maybe to mislead the client with a false message?" What if, indeed? The author's fizz of comic energy is as wild and scornful as Richard Condon's, back when Condon was young...