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...lovely Sarah Patterson, and her grandmother, a scary yet whimsical Angela Lansbury, do seem to engender much of the brooding atmosphere with their love of telling haunting stories, "If he's born feet first and his eyebrows meet in the middle...One day he'll meet in the devil in the wood...
Jordan simply embellishes these tales. The boy described does meet the devil. Immediately the shrubbery at his feet begins to lengthen to encircle and entrap him. We may not know much about the personalities of the characters by the end of the movie, but we certainly know why the devil scares them. The woods are both lovely, and dark and deep. Finally Rosaleen meets a lupine lover who may be the devil himself. He woos her in two scenes as superficially demure yet sexually suggestive as the near-naughty tale itself: "What big teeth you have...the better...
...company's trademark," begins the recording. That toll-free message at (800) 354-0508 is one of the ways in which Procter & Gamble has tried to quash a persistent whisper campaign alleging that its man-in-the-moon logo is satanic and that the company is somehow involved in devil worship. Last week the giant Cincinnati manufacturer (1984 sales: $12.9 billion) decided that the 103-year-old logo has become more of a headache than it is worth. Frustrated by an inexplicable rebirth of the rumors on the East Coast, Procter & Gamble said it would start removing the trademark within...
...upperclassman at the University of North Carolina when Thomas Wolfe arrived at Chapel Hill, Ervin was the sort Wolfe later wrote about, the BMOCs who "talked--always they talked, under the trees, against the ivied walls, assembled in their rooms . . . with a large, easy fluency about God, the Devil, and philosophy, the girls, politics...
...film Amadeus (Harvard Square). Professor Thomas Hulce (perhaps you've heard of him--it seems he's quite a gifted actor, judging from his performance in Animal House) has an unusual attachment to this film, and has us all convinced that Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) is the Devil, sight unseen. Dewitt is willing to give Salieri the benefit of the doubt unless Mozart stops that lunatic giggling...