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...while she dallies, she cannot even make enough money to pay for her sessions. When Hoffman refuses to treat her again until she pays up, she tries to shoot him but misses. Her agent (Baritone James Billings) tells her to make a choice, opera, stage or screen. Then the devil (Bass Harris Poor) appears in a gray three-piece suit. "Simply sign your name," he says, "and I guarantee you fame." Finally she is visited by Diaghilev (Tenor Nico Castel), who also offers her success as a singer...
...retired and tired, tired of deceptive, middle-of-the-road politicians and the mediocrity they peddle. He neither loves Jimmy Carter, nor admires him very much, but Carter has won him over. "Look," Maffei said after the president finished, there's an old Italian saying: 'You know the devil you got, but you don't know the devil you gonna get.' You know what I mean? Carter will have to do. He knows we can't vote for Reagan...
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...city's many traffic circles, ready to fight any blaze started by Iranian bombs. "We are ready for this war and have been for a long time," a high school student told TIME Cor respondent Adam Zagorin. "Like the Iranians we are Muslims, but Khomeini is a devil who has forced his people against us." Iraqi newspapers played up the propaganda aspects of civilian casualties caused by the bombings, showing pictures of mothers and children injured and in shock. Said the captions: "They fail to face an Iraqi soldier, but they turn to kill Iraqi children...
While debunking the hardened-untruths of others, Harrison always remains self-deprecating, never entrenching herself in deep battle lines of argument. Unfeeling, bloodless righteousness has been the devil of her life; she is always on guard for it in herself. She is sincere when she says she feels "like a hard-faced bitch," when she can't find much sympathy for the woman in a consciousness-raising course who's always trying to draw attention to her domestic melodrama. And in her brilliant indictment of Didion she goes out of her way to be fair, whole-heartedly praising some aspects...