Word: devil
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...Election Night in the U.S., the comedian had put the presidential seal on his growing popularity. A Japanese reality show called "Devil's Contract," which helps Japanese celebrities realize their dreams, aired an episode in which they had sent Notchi to the United States to try to meet the then-senator and have him sign a contract endorsing the impersonation. If Notchi failed, he promised he would fly to Arizona to deliver a pro-Obama speech in front of John McCain's supporters. "I was fully prepared to do it and have stones thrown at me," Notchi said later...
...been busy times ever since. After Obama's election, Notchi accosted an unsuspecting Prime Minister Taro Aso for another episode of "Devil's Contract" at a shopping arcade in Tokyo to show him the photo he had taken with the President-Elect in St. Louis. In fact, today nearly all of Notchi's comedic bookings come from this new gig, and he hopes the work will keep coming. "I will be Obama for the next four years," he says, "If lucky, even eight...
Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower...
...12th studio album, “That Don’t Make Me a Bad Guy,” bears all the signs of an artist aging out of what made him great. Gone for the most part are the brash, irreverent lyrics, bold build-ups, and devil-may-care hooks that characterized earlier hits like “Want to Talk About Me,” “Beer For My Horses,” and “How Do You Like Me Now.” Missing is the sense of reckless misadventure that had even...
...Then there's the "devil's party" room, an apartment on the top floor of a 15th century manor house that emits strange sounds after midnight. According to legend, a mysterious man in a cape rented the apartment a few hundred years back; a neighbor who peaked around the door to find out what all the noise was about one night saw the devil himself. The single window in the room is now bricked up and the glazing painted with a fake curtain. According to a clerk at a nearby hotel, a Dutch diplomat who not long ago rented rooms...