Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sophia Loren, 49. Naturally, the lad plays Loren's offspring in the movie, which-to keep things in the family-is being produced by his father Carlo Ponti, 70. How did the little cherub do, Mama? "He looks like an angel, but he's really like a devil," says Edoardo's glamorous costar. "Already he criticizes my acting." Meanwhile, the Pontis are working on plans for another family project: a new home on Williams Island, a $1 billion resort venture in North Miami for which the couple are creative consultants. "I can bring some of Italy here...
...effects - nothing too beautiful: storytelling rather than elocution. His preferred tools are the chain saw, the ax and the blowtorch, with which he "paints" areas of sooty shadow into the wood. This scorching makes his pieces look even more like visitors from Down Below. You can laugh at the devil, but not too hard or long...
...inexpert deduction from Miro. But this hardly matters beside the strength of Surls' best work. Notably Working in the Garden, 1981, the massive root system of an oak dug from the ground, seasoned, and then equipped with a demented spiral wooden "cloud" on top - a whirling dust-devil of some sort, studded with eyes and bristling with wooden facsimiles of double-bitted axes. It is an altogether marvelous apparition, one that manages to be funny, menacing, otherworldly and stridently physical all at the same time: a master piece of the special American genre of buckeye surrealism, as lovingly made...
...basically an intellectual discussion on a hypothetical level," one senate aide who asked not to be identified said, adding. "Bidden was just playing the devil's advocate...
...everyone so interested in voter registration?" asks longtime civil rights activist James E. Madison. "It all has to do with what I call Plato's theory to defeat apathy: you either provide people with an incentive or you expose a devil-this year we've got both...