Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by Joao Guimaraes Rosa. Though rooted in the specifics of Brazil's wild interior, this collection of stories by the late author of The Devil to Pay in the Backlands bears an abundant crop of universal values...
Determined Spoiler. Faust is usually done as a Victorian morality play in which the Devil rightly gets his due. The New York City Opera's new production at Lincoln Center is a chiller in which an obstinate Mephistopheles stands as a towering match for the Almighty. From the moment when he first springs to life in Faust's laboratory, it is readily apparent that this is a Devil who bursts with the power of his own evil. He taunts God endlessly, even pulling an arrow brazenly from the chest of a statue of St. Sebastian to make wine...
...began thinking about it, he became fascinated with the prospect of doing Faust as a grim Gothic tale in which sheer horror and grizzly humor intertwine. He decided to introduce Mephistopheles in different guises that would fit credibly into each scene. After materializing first as a cadaver, the Devil appears later as a gypsy fortuneteller, then Don Juan, then a soldier of fortune. Next, Corsaro threw out the lurid, last-act Walpurgisnacht scene, the ballet sequence that always draws laughs everywhere but in Paris. Finally, poor Marguerite dies on the gallows instead of escaping to heaven...
Though a few of the Burton Lane songs-notably Old Devil Moon and Look to the Rainbow-are imperishable, most of the score is as withered as the scenario. The few attempts at updating by E. Y. Harburg, who wrote the lyrics, are ludicrous. In 1947 one couplet...
...Street Fighting Man ("Comes summer here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy")? Coincidentally, Fighting Man was released as a single during last month's Democratic Convention and was promptly boycotted by most Chicago radio stations. Perhaps the best track is Sympathy for the Devil, in which an intriguing Mick Jagger lyric rides over a sizzling Latin beat...