Word: deviled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Bush bought a new Boston whaler for the Maine summers, he held a naming contest and executed some grandfatherly diplomacy by giving almost every entry some award, ending with two names that were painted on the boat: Speedy Sea King and Wa-Wa's Devil, which is Bush family code for their housekeeper, Paula Rendon...
...month before his 68th birthday, he almost certainly didn't expect to attend opening night of a revival nearly 39 years later. He surely didn't expect to be 106 and actively supervising revisions to his libretto about a middle-aged man who sells his soul to the devil for one glorious season as a long-ball hitter. But Abbott was more than a ceremonial presence at last week's gala. He was in the audience for previews night after night -- taking notes. Since well before the revival began tryouts in San Diego last autumn, Abbott has debated jokes...
...show in period but with attitude -- sardonically exaggerated sets, saturated colors, a heightened performing style that lets audiences feel it's O.K. to be a little distant from the world of the play. Period references have been added, many with a snide edge not found in the original. The devil says he's been busy designing an Edsel, the Ford fiasco that went onto the market two years after the show first opened. When he envisions a gallery of great lovers through history, he mentions FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, a sacred cow when the original show opened, and Hoover...
...thought I had ferreted some angst from the champion of devil-may-care. Finding myself groping for more insight into Cruise's personality, I asked him if he identifies personally with any particular characters he has created. Cruise said he identifies with all of his characters. (Was I not asking the questions pointedly enough?) He said his favorite role is the one he has just finished playing at any given time. "You find things in yourself to Bring to the screen," he explained...
...might not be the Devil himself, but he is certainly not the ideal instructor for a clueless physics student, Orlina says...