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...your photographs. One states, POWER TO THE PEOPLES AND NOT TO THE PARTIES! Another says, THANK YOU, CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CPSU, FOR THE LIGHT OF CHERNOBYL, WHICH HAS ILLUMINATED THE ENTIRE COUNTRY AND IMMERSED IT INTO DARKNESS. And then there is the one proclaiming, I HAVE A DEVILISH DESIRE FOR A BIT OF SAUSAGE. LUDMILLA THORNE, Director Soviet Studies, Freedom House New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.--W.E.B. DuBois...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Strong, Black, Female | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

When the Hoods attend a "Key Party," where husbands place their car keys in a bowl and wives fish them out to form new sexual partnerships, the hostess presents them with the bowl and says, with a devilish smile, "new this year!" It's too new for the Hoods, who don't quite know how to handle free love. Meanwhile, precocious Wendy Hood insists on wearing a Richard Nixon mask during foreplay with Mikey Carver (Elijah Wood). These details, however uncomfortably amusing, put the very local action of the film into a larger context. If the film's goal...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finely Crafted 'Ice Storm' Captures '70s in Unrelenting Deep Freeze | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

...dangerous as long as she takes her medicine." Lesly, as the odd man out, is the only character to question the family's complete submission to and indulgence of Jackie O. With the exact nature of Jackie's illness left very vague, the viewer suffers from a devilish, but painful, ambivalence over whether her mental state followed the incest or was present all along. Meanwhile, Mrs. Pascal and the rest of the family accept the incest as a natural occurrence in this very unconventional family...

Author: By Kamil E. Redmond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Take a Pillbox Hat and a Social Taboo... | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...giving you a devilish leer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAY IT WITH A :) | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

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