Word: devil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that in the past few years the genre has diversified. There's House of Pain, an Irish-American rap group that features b-boy bravado and beer-soaked rhymes ("Coming with the style of a Celtic rebel/ Those that ain't on my level call me the blue-eyed devil"), and the Belfast grunge band Therapy?, whose debut album Nurse wallows in pounding metal rhythms and anarchistic attitude ("I don't need you/ I don't want you/ I don't want to feel anymore"). Earlier this year Stokes tried to put together an issue of Hot Press listing...
...provost dies and goes to Hell, where the Devil informs him that he will be named president of a university. The provost is excited, but then wonders: What kind of a university could Hell possibly have to offer...
Sensing the provost's concern, the Devil takes him on a tour. The provost is bewildered, for the university seems ideal. The grounds are beautiful and well-maintained, the students are smart and eager, the professors are brilliant and productive...
...provost turns to the Devil in amazement. "I thought this was Hell," he says. "Why are you making me president of such a great university...
...Because," replies the Devil, with a knowing smile, "it's got two medical schools...