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When a publisher offers to publish her book on the condition that she change the title from I Await the Devil's Coming to My Story Mary McLane. May readily acquiesces while Mary rages in the background. If she could do it over again, she insists she would refuse to tailor her work to the mores of turn-of-the-century-America. Despite the title change as it turns out society ostracizes Mary who never succeeds in producing another work...
Beyond the footlights of the concert stage he cavorted like the devil, but oh how Nicolo Paganini could play. Considered the greatest violinist who ever lived, he was electrifying as he hunched his skeletal frame and hawklike features over his magnificent violin, crafted by Giuseppe Guarneri in 1742. "Perpetually conserved" in Italy by the city of Genoa, according to Paganini's will, the prized Guarneri, insured for $800,000, crossed the Atlantic last week, and in the skilled hands of Neapolitan Virtuoso Salvatore Accardo, 40, made its U.S. debut at New York City's Carnegie Hall. "I have...
...Hoping to squeeze out a few more screams (and mercilessly to drag the production out to full feature length) the story then goes on to an exorcism, when the mostly irrelevant Father Tom (Andrew Prine) risks his career, and his life, to wage war with the devil. Sonny's body serving as the battlefield...
...final bold stroke of midnight, December 31, 1899." "Although presented as a true chronicle the events tend towards the fantastic from the initial sequence in which Deride disappears in a black silk balloon. Yet such events are treated as commonplace (if confusing) as is sexual mutability. Neither ghost nor devil is long absent from the Zinn hearth...
...Touch the Devil, Higgins...