Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...efforts to get back to the little girl with the oranges that will make her well. Along the way the puppy encounters a sloe-eyed South American ballerina and her raffishly murderous boyfriend; he is betrayed by his best friend, a stuffed cat, and he wanders into a devil's convocation of puppets and paper dolls straight out of a Heronymus Bosch painting. The special effects save a perilously sentimental story line and everything comes out happily...
...Angola, are being summarily shot, lest they become UNITA recruits. The atrocities may be strengthening support for UNITA. Says one refugee cattle herder: "After what Neto and the northerners have done to us, we will fight forever for Savimbi. When the call comes to help him drive the devil Cubans out of our country, we will return...
Rough Diamond. Avon has supplied them. In addition to Author Woodiwiss, Editor Coffey has discovered Laurie McBain, a 26-year-old Smith graduate whose 428-page Devil's Desire has sold 1,268,000 copies, and Joyce Verrette, a former NBC secretary whose 475-page Dawn of Desire has sold 150,000 more than that. But the biggest discovery was made late in 1973 when a rough diamond as big as the Ritz dropped through Avon's transom...
...attempting that most difficult of 20th century feats-living in the service of an absentee God. For her sufferings and self-denials, Weil has been canonized as a secular saint by contemporary intellectuals. This biography, by her friend and academic colleague Simone Pétrement, should ward off potential devil's advocates. It reveals Weil not only as a unique intellect whose thought spanned thousands of years and many cultures but also as a child of her time and place-France after World War I, sapped yet still adventuresome. Weil's mind belonged to the classics...
...MARQUISE OF O . . . Director Eric Rohmer's coolly ironic historical romance about a woman who first mistakes a man for an angel, then for a devil, but finally learns he is just . . . a man. A delicate morality play that is also a send-up of melodramatic conventions, it is very likely the best of the best-and surely the wittiest...