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Roared Nikita: "Who can remain calm and indifferent to such provocative statements made in the United States Senate by this woman, blinded by savage hatred toward the community of Socialist countries?" Shrilly, Nikita went on, "It is hard to believe how a woman, if she is not the devil in disguise, can make such a malicious man-hating appeal. She should understand that in the fire of nuclear war millions of people would perish, including her own children, if she has any. Even the wildest of animals, a tigress even, worries about her cubs, licks and pities them...
...novel gets much of its quality from the convoluted Jamesian style, which is hardly suited to song. Still, Composer Moore ( The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Ballad of Baby Doe) was fascinated by the story of a young Englishwoman who urges her penniless lover to start a flirtation with an ailing American heiress, hoping that the heiress, who is compared in the story to a dove, will soon die and leave him rich and free. In stripping the story to the operatic bone, Moore and Librettist Ethan Aver changed the name of the scheming suitor from Merton Densher to Miles...
...Dutchmen convicted in Kiev as spies, beneath a bed occupied by a snoozing Khrushchev. Most of the paper's 70,000 subscribers are delighted with Behrendt's daring lance work-with one notable and royal exception. In 1959, after Behrendt showed Khrushchev changing from angel to devil and back again, former Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, horrified at what she considered sacrilege, canceled her subscription...
...instantly fulfilled by his wife (Pina Pellicer). She steals a turkey, kills and cooks it, tells her husband to eat it while his hungry children are asleep. Stomach overcomes conscience, and Macario runs off to the woods. But just as he opens his mouth to eat the bird, the Devil appears, dressed as a dashing caballero...
...Devil's Eye. Sweden's Director Ingmar Bergman brings Don Juan up from Hell on a mission of seduction, and an average 20th century girl sends him back more melancholy than ever for having learned what love...