Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...star actors, from Walter Hampden to Ralph Richardson to José Ferrer in the Oscar-winning film version. But the movie ran only 112 min.; the R.S.C. Cyrano soldiers on at nearly twice that length. More important, Anthony Burgess's verse translation, while lean and clever ("Our devil's changed into a Christian brother,/ Attack one nostril and he turns the other"), irons out the swellings of Rostand's perfervid rhetoric. The direction, by Terry Hands, who also staged Much Ado, is as antiromantic as the translation. It retreats from the play's signal qualities: passion...
...action revolves around the struggle between the Puritans and a wanton group of women whom they accuse of witchcraft. Conflict brews when the Puritans enlist the aid of a skeptical angel, and a devil decided to champion the women's cause...
...David's jokes are as old as he is; they only come to seem that way when he tells them over and over again. "The devil made me do it" is a corker that had pretty well run its course when Flip Wilson retired it about a decade ago. Heller makes David say it no fewer than three times. Who can forget the noted humorist and slugger Reggie Jackson and his boast "I'm the straw that stirs the drink"? Certainly not Heller, who uses this line three times as well. The spirit of Woody Allen is sometimes...
...seemed to support the Government's contention that De Lorean was a willing participant in the drug deal, which involved 220 Ibs. of cocaine worth $24 million. Prosecutors had described him as a jet-setting profligate with "the conscience of a tomcat" who "shook hands with the devil...
Like the old nursery rhyme. "Ring Around the Rosies"--with its hidden suggestions of the bubonic plague--these songs translate the horrors of the adult world into children's language. The death, madness, and devil rituals on this EP may be common but Oh-Ok's handling of them in childish terms is quite original, something along the lines of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit", which turned an acid trip into an Alice-in-Wonderland fairy tale...