Word: deviled
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...Vietnam War—filled with drug use and instructions to ignore the safety on a gun. One soldier even imitates Rambo, covering his face with mud and asking to take a rebel village by himself. For Beah, who describes the world through a fish-eye lens, the devil is in such details. But Beah has taken upon himself a topic worthy of aerial photography. Even though Beah has left the big-picture politics out, the reader cannot help but ask related questions. One is left wondering what the international community was thinking when it allowed such...
...movies. But this time it does. Verhoeven has something fascinating to say about characters whose motives are as messy as his own, and he does it in a tumbling, heedless, but finally irresistible rush of action and imagery. We are obliged, at least this once, to give the devil his due - and to consider the possibility that he may even be, in this instance, the angel of bleak truthfulness...
...Mutual Understanding I was shocked to read Peter Beinart's Viewpoint "The Devil We Know" [March 5]. The strategic U.S.-Saudi relationship has been a success, but Beinart made no reference to Saudi Arabia's positive contributions. Over the past several decades, our countries' partnership has stabilized the world economy by securing oil supplies, contained communist regimes, defeated Saddam Hussein and fought terrorism. Saudi Arabia is a balancing power against radical forces that are driving the region back to the Dark Ages. Khalid Al-Saeed, RIYADH...
...Mutual Understanding I was shocked to read Peter Beinart's Viewpoint "The Devil We Know" [March 5]. The strategic U.S.-Saudi relationship has been a success, but Beinart made no reference to Saudi Arabia's positive contributions. Over the past several decades, our countries' partnership has stabilized the world economy by securing oil supplies, contained communist regimes, defeated Saddam Hussein and fought terrorism. Saudi Arabia is a balancing power against radical forces that are driving the region back to the Dark Ages. Khalid Al-Saeed, Riyadh...
...only have a better mastery of the material but are also not afraid to tell students they’re wrong. So when the class megalomaniac says something obtuse like, “I think we should discuss the theological implications of the eschatological, and Stephen Dedalus is the devil,” the professor will respond, “No, I don’t think that’s relevant at all. In fact, I wish you would think more before you speak.” Ah, the sweet sound of rejection...