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...Devil's Disciple. The Summer School Repertory Theater is starting its three-show season with its obligatory bicentennial tribute--George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, and the Loeb Drama Center is already decked out in red, white and blue bunting to publicize the July 4 (when else?) opening of this British comic melodrama about the American Revolution...
Harvard's most elegantly appointed theater is already decked out with red, white and blue streamers to publicize the opening of George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple--the first of three Harvard Summer School Repertory Theater offerings...
Reems, who is scheduled to stand trial in Memphis next October for his performance in "The Devil in Miss Jones," said yesterday the "Deep Throat" case involves precedents on the "constitutional and entertainment industry levels...
Because Joys of a Woman is soft-core porn, slated for more general consumption than, say, The Devil and Miss Jones, there are no scenes of sexual acts that could shock any but the most prudish. The cinematography, like the bodies, is beautiful; the exotic backgrounds are topped off by the soft, sentimental music that swells up to a climax each time the actors reach orgasm. This is soft-core pornography, after all, and while hard-core isn't much more appealing, at least it doesn't try to ignore the warts. This, perhaps, is the ultimate in mass culture...
...Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary In a characteristically dire report, the Central Intelligence Agency has just warned of potential global upheavals "almost beyond comprehension." The cause of the chaos: climatic change that will trigger massive crop failures, drought and widespread famine (see ENVIRONMENT). In contrast to this augury of doom, Herman Kahn, ebullient director of the foresighted Hudson Institute, has just looked at the future and found it good. His new book, The Next 200 Years, offers a plausible scenario of declining population growth, rising levels of affluence and, given the right so cio-economic conditions, "virtually eternal...