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Last night, RPI looked like it might escape with a win in the series' opening game, despite the hole it dug for itself early on. Meanwhile, Harvard became the living embodiement of Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice," playing like the devil in the first period and then transforming into Mr. Freeze in the final 40 minutes...
...Customs Commissioner William von Raab begs to differ. "Occasionally they swing some poor slob out to make us feel they're cooperating," he says. "But it's nobody close to Noriega." Von Raab condemns the view that a pact with the devil is better than no pact at all: "At some point you become owned by the devil...
Drayton said the committee asked him how he felt about taking Rhodes' money at the end of his interview for the scholarship. The Governor-General of Barbados later told Drayton that his response should have been the traditional Barbadian proverb, "If the devil sent it, God must bring it"--that is, even if something appears to come from the devil, it must be God's will...
...films released in 1987. Audiences seemed to take more pleasure in the spectacle of people and things that went blam! in the night: Fatal Attraction, The Untouchables, Lethal Weapon, Predator. Oh, there were cop comedies (Beverly Hills Cop II, the No. 1 hit, and Stakeout and Dragnet) and a devil comedy (The Witches of Eastwick) and an oddly amoral Michael J. Fox comedy (The Secret of My Success -- sort of Wall Street for the Smurf set). But all these films traded in physical or emotional degradation; they left an acrid aftertaste. One began to wonder how long Hollywood could continue...
...BROADCAST NEWS In James L. Brooks' wickedly nice comedy, the devil (William Hurt) is an anchorman, and a charming one too. Holly Hunter and Albert Brooks shine in this delectable All About Eve for the infotainment...