Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marchais declared in a Paris speech: "If I believed in God, I would promise hell for anyone who believes in austerity." Barre, for his part, ripped into Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, whose Common Program with the Communists he likened to Dr. Faust's pact with the devil. Said Barre in the city of Caen: "Monsieur Mitterrand has played with fire, and now he is beginning to burn. He signed a pact, as Faust did, to regain his youth. Now the day of reckoning has arrived...
Bobby Murrah, the official Blue Devil who sports all the accoutrements of an underworld basketball fanatic including Blue Horns and a Blue Trident, was the only person on the basketball court available for an interview after Duke demolished Villanova yesterday...
...Omen is a soulless, gutless endeavor, an ultra-gory, workmanlike tale about the arrival of the anti-Christ, one Damien. (Every movie about the devil must have its "Damien"). Every ten minutes someone gets impaled, chucked out a window, or decapitated, the latter by a plate-glass window in a scene lingered over by the cameraman as though he were some kind of vampire. One moment of imagination: the prowl of a vicious wolf-dog from hell whose breathing is synchronized with one of Jerry Goldsmith's Latin chants. Gregory Peck is well-meaning, but as animated as a potted...
Still, I remember you as a fiesty devil then. Captain Carr and his "Irish Line" wouldn't let anybody push you around. At the end of the regular season you weren't in the top four of the ECAC standings so you didn't have the home ice advantage in the first round...
Wait. Things get worse. In New York City, in the same play, she screamed to backstage technicians about misplaced cues, not knowing that her body mike was still on. Her complaints thundered all the way to the last row. Then, in a performance of The Devil's Disciple in Stratford, Conn., she stuck a hatpin in her chest, puncturing a lung. "I wasn't doing very well, anyway," she sighs. "I just didn't understand the part." To end the list, add only three words: Gable and Lombard, possibly the worst major movie of the decade. Says...