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...devil, judging from the number of spook-and-demon movies now brewing in Hollywood. Not only will Actress Linda Blair soon make a spirited return in The Heretic-Exorcist II, but Producer Harvey Bernhard has agreed to work on three sequels to The Omen, his picture about a devilish four-year-old named Damien. The Omen has pulled $50 million into U.S. and Canadian box offices since its release, and so Bernhard plans to bring Damien back as a twelve-year-old, a young man and a Western leader who guides his people to Armageddon. "It's a natural...
Even so, the episode was a uniquely devilish way of telling her husband that she knew about his mischief...
...rise to the surface. Diverse perspectives are offered on the men around the President-Mitchell, Haldeman and Ehrlichman-on precisely what brought Nixon down, and on how the Government and press have been affected. Most notably, these books provide small, sharp, almost novelistic insights into the personal struggles-some devilish, some inspiring-of individuals caught up in the scandal...
Today, the complexities are devilish. In the unlikely event that Ford should choose to pump up a slumping economy by having the Government ladle out money, inflation could swell to even more unprecedented dimensions. The greater fear among some liberal economists is that he will give exclusive priority to fighting inflation by radically slashing federal spending and encouraging the independent Federal Reserve to keep a heavy hand on the nation's money supply, and thereby bring on a real bust. In July, the Council of Economic Advisers expected unemployment to rise to 6% before it began to come down...
Fonda may now have to don steel-rimmed glasses before he can draw a bead on his targets, but he is still a great American presence, an icon to be reckoned with. The blond, blue-eyed Hill blends the spirit of a devilish boy with an adult's competence in the hard moments of a hard trade. You half expect him to pull a toad out of his holster, and you never quite believe that he can draw thrice in the time it takes ordinary men to draw once. And you shouldn't. For this...