Word: deviled
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...preserved in formaldehyde), another quarter for a glimpse of Carmelita, the "Hermaphrodite." ("Ladies on one side of the curtain, please, and the gentlemen on the other. Wives may stand with their husbands.") Following the colonel himself past the animal cages was an olfactory experience. Living in a trailer with Devil, the two-nosed dog, a spider monkey named Snowball, and a dark, unhousebroken Capuchin named Herman can dose a man with strange scents as the weeks pass...
...cheery little old baldhead with a shaggy white beard and a nightshirt down to his bare feet who bustles about creating the world, the sky, the sun and moon and Adam and Eve with an air of happy surprise. The Devil is a horned and hairy-bottomed practical joker who tosses what monkey wrenches he can into Cod's works. The angels are busy little helpers; they drape swatches of fabric around the skinless animals so that the Creator can judge which hide suits which beast; they also hold up various kinds of sky like wallpaper samples...
...pictures, they are "breezy," "charming," "graceful," "creative." Said Cartoonist Effel. a militant left-winger: Osservatore Romano has every right to criticize the film, although "they never seem to worry about religious ceremonies shocking the layman." Back came Osservatore with a blast at a sequence in which the Devil warms up Eve for the apple scene by bouncing her off in a frenetic rock 'n' roll. "This caricature of the female half of mankind would be enough to justify our protests. Nowhere does the Bible say that the female human was under devilish influence or in connivance with...
Does Faubus' great victory at the polls justify him? Couldn't the Devil carry his state by a still larger vote...
...GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE (1880-1918) often sounded like one of his characters, who said: "I found humanity on its last legs, devoted to fetishes, bigoted, barely capable of distinguishing good from evil-and I shall leave it intelligent, enlightened, regenerated, knowing there is neither good nor evil nor God nor Devil nor spirit nor matter in distinct separate-ness." Apollinaire's thoughts, attitudes and interests hopped from point to point with anarchic abandon: "Unsolved crimes, papal infallibility, and the new art of the moving picture inspired him equally." Blessed with true lyric talent, Apollinaire nevertheless "felt the need to jumble...