Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even you have free will," Chris said. He was playing devil's advocate, but Jon still did not want to let him get away with...
...litany of paranoia. She cussed out other residents for complaining about her trash on the roadside. The doorknobs in her house were wrapped in aluminum foil, she explained, because it "kept out the demons." When a shrub died in her yard, she referred to it as "the devil's bush." Said a neighbor: "She was terrified of everything...
Network. With spring comes tolerance (revisionism, actually), and I have agreed to let a more gullible filmgoer play devil's advocate this week in response to my review of this movie last week. He says: "It is well worth seeing." Critics have said that Paddy Chayevsky's script about a network news announcer who goes berserk and climbs to the top of the ratings is 'out of control' but that is its beauty. The film is widely satirical--the very insanity of its premise (that the network keeps the insane commentator on the air because of his ratings--makes film...
Network. With spring comes tolerance (revisionism, actually), and I have agreed to let a more gullible filmgoer play devil's advocate this week in response to my review of this movie last week. He says: "It is well worth seeing. Critics have said that Paddy Chayevsky's script about a network news announcer who goes berserk and climbs to the top of the ratings is out of control' but that is its beauty. The film is widely satirical--the very insanity of its premise--that the network keeps the insane commentator on the air because of his ratings--makes...
French Choreographer Maurice Béjart had a devil of a time casting his ballet rendition of Goethe's Faust. Who could play the aging hero, a scholar struggling to recapture his youth by bargaining with Mephistopheles? "There aren't many 50-year-old male dancers left," explains Béjart, who happens to be exactly 50. So, even though he hadn't danced onstage in nine years, Béjart decided that in the Broadway premiere of his Notre Faust, he himself would play the title role and Mephistopheles as well. Before his debut...