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...transparent: it is still Pavese speaking. His observations about women are cutting, as when a restless wife concludes: "Living is really putting up with someone else and going to bed with him, whether you feel like it or not." And it is still Pavese speaking as narrator in The Devil in the Hills. Here he returns to the Piedmontese hills, where he is confronted with the senseless incursions of vice from the cities and a rich young man drugging and drinking himself to death-all placed in a framework of nature accurately observed...
...more than 18 months, the 23 groups of international oil companies drilling for natural gas in sandstone off the English coast have been caught between a devil and the deep blue sea. The treacherous North Sea and its gales have sunk two of their big drilling rigs, interrupted operations and increased production costs. The devil, as far as they are concerned, is Britain...
...sentimentalists, there was Eugenio Monti, 40, Italy's "Red Devil" of the bobsled run, a nine-time world champion but never before an Olympics gold-medal winner, who finally realized his lifelong ambition-twice over -with victories in both the two-man and four-man events. The U.S., too, had someone to cheer in Michigan's Terry McDermott, ten pounds heavier and four years older (at 27) than he was when he astonished everyone by winning the men's 500-meter speed-skating race at Innsbruck in 1964. This time, on a rink that...
BETWEEN wishes, the cook tags behind the devil as he performs his "casual mischief"--popping buttons from shirts returning from the cleaners, phoning up people in the bath, ripping the last page from Agatha Christies...
Bedazzled is the product of half the Beyond the Fringe team. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore star as the devil and the chef. In addition, Cook and Moore collaborated on the original story with Cook writing the music...