Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy in midspring is much more robust than the experts had anticipated it would be, but the old devil of inflation is tougher than ever. The economy may well be approaching a stage where new inflationary bottlenecks will appear. Shortages of skilled labor are cropping up; the amount of overtime is running close to that of 1973, when plants were operating at close to full effective capacity. Considering that, most members of the board favored a reduction in Carter's proposed $25 billion tax cut. Noted Okun: "What looked to me like a reasonable fiscal policy in December...
...summer of 1976, she was little more than a skeleton, weighing a mere 68 Ibs. Yet shortly before she died, her parents said, Anneliese performed an astonishing 500 deep knee-bends in one day. The source of her power, her parents believed, was nothing less than the devil himself. Anneliese's release from evil spirits came only with death, after she starved herself during a nightmarish ten-month series of Roman Catholic exorcism rituals. Two weeks ago, a court in Aschaffenburg found two priests and Anneliese's parents, wealthy Mill Owner Josef Michel, 60, and his wife Anna...
...Whatever Lola Wants," "The Good Old Days" and "Goodbye Old Girl," which is more than you can say of the Globe sports pages. As you might expect, a show mixing Faust and the Yankees was combustible stuff on Broadway--one of its longest-running shows, in fact. Maybe the Devil helped light the fire. At any rate, this wacky gem bodes well (or should I say evilly?) to make a spirited evening (one hell of a pun, no?). At Eliot House Dining Hall, tonight through Saturday at 8; tickets at Holyoke Center or at the door...
...show called Over Here! By the last night of the show, Travolta had resolved to try his luck Out There. In Hollywood, his old pal Jerry Wurms drove Johnny to auditions on the back of his motorcycle. Travolta scored his first movie job in a little horror called The Devil's Rain, in which he melts into a puddle of liquid putrescence while shouting, "Blasphemer! Blasphemer...
Birabeau (Laurie Main), who is an inanely unsuspecting cuckold. All the key figures converge on a kind of maison d'amour run by the lecherous Mme. Spritzer (Kathleen Freeman). There they are beset by an 1890 version of the Keystone Kops who have a devil of a time trying to fathom the traffic flow...