Word: deviled
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...bottomless reservoir of adrenaline. The program had sped by much too fast. Smitten, I hungered to go back. Missed cues, memory lapses, technical distractions, the guest's curve balls, the occasional fumbling efforsts at easy conversation?all these had brought terrors, but they they were terrors shared by dare-devil drivers and talk-show hosts alike: they only heightened the thrill. I understood, too, the performer's need for approval. I accosted total strangers backstage, demanding of them line-by-line opinions of the program, insistently playing back to them my own version of my triumph...
...nation defensively obsessed with its identity make Israelis narrow and provincial? Such questions-especially the first-are raised by the veterans whose memories of the lightning war in 1967 are presented in The Seventh Day. It is as if the grandchildren of the original messiahs had discovered the devil in themselves. Says one soldier: "People are horrified at themselves, at how they'd been able to kill...
Catching the Devil...
...John Lateran blindfolded and, after saying certain specific prayers, grasp a saintly figure, which would become the lawyers' patron. Yves, catching hold of an image, cried: "This is our saint!" Removing his blindfold, he was horrified to find that he had laid hold of the figure of the devil under the feet of St. Michael...
...march through Cicero in which King was hit by a brick. He told me about the firecrackers that sounded so much like gunshots and the rocks and the eggs and the fear. Then he said, "You know man, with all that shit flying around, I wondered what the devil I was doing out there. Then I looked at Martin, marching like he had everything under control, and I kept walking. There was no way you couldn't believe...