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Word: deviled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Undercover (Rolling Stones/Atlantic) begins with the Rolling Stones doing a kind of ghetto-blaster version of Sympathy for the Devil called Undercover of the Night. Like much of the best Stones stuff, this song is a dance through a nightmare, behind a slick, heavy beat that is unmistakably contemporary and irresistibly funky. The lyrics make scary references to "100,000 disparus lost in the jails in South America" and "The smell of sex/ The smell of suicide." Undercover of the Night launches two sides of grizzly humor, humid sexuality and gut-level rock. The song titles-Too Much Blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tripping Through Old Times | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...also right. We should, I think, get rid of this belief, which belongs to the nursery. In politics one can never do more than decide which of two evils is the lesser, and there are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Quotable Orwell | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...lived next door to the Cuban embassy in St. George's, recalled that "the Cubans were darling neighbors, very polite. But the U.S. is the best thing for us now. Things were coming so unstuck that I'm sure we were just snatched in time from the devil's own mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now to Make It Work | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...years after the Saturday Night Massacre, Cox is still the familiar, almost folksy figure who wouldn't compromise with the devil. He sits somewhere among the folds of an enveloping tweed jacket, with a bright red bow tie, and a crewcut that went out of fashion with a bright red bow tie, and a crewcut that went out of fashion with the two-term President, in a dusty, book-lined office in a corner of Langdell Library. If Harvard academics could design a hero of their-own, who met the real world and won, surely he would look like Archibald...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: Just Another Saturday Night | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...views on the Catholic Church have come to be accepted even by many Catholics, his anti-Semitic views remain a problem for even his most devoted supporters. Says New York City Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum: "The anniversary will be marred by the haunting specter of Luther's devil theory of the Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Luther: Giant of His Time and Ours | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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