Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 18 months, the 23 groups of international oil companies drilling for natural gas in sandstone off the English coast have been caught between a devil and the deep blue sea. The treacherous North Sea and its gales have sunk two of their big drilling rigs, interrupted operations and increased production costs. The devil, as far as they are concerned, is Britain...
...sentimentalists, there was Eugenio Monti, 40, Italy's "Red Devil" of the bobsled run, a nine-time world champion but never before an Olympics gold-medal winner, who finally realized his lifelong ambition-twice over -with victories in both the two-man and four-man events. The U.S., too, had someone to cheer in Michigan's Terry McDermott, ten pounds heavier and four years older (at 27) than he was when he astonished everyone by winning the men's 500-meter speed-skating race at Innsbruck in 1964. This time, on a rink that...
Nestled within the plot are a rapid-fire series of attacks on a few of the more usual elements of society, most particularly the church. The devil speaks of God sitting on his great throne "surrounded by thousands of sycophantic, prissy little angels" all telling Him how great, good, handsome, and wise He is. In response to his final wish, the cook is transformed into a nun and lands in the convent of the Leaping Virilians, where initiation consists of bouncing around on a trampoline to the beat of Big Sister, the head of the convent. ("Big Sister Is Watching...
BETWEEN wishes, the cook tags behind the devil as he performs his "casual mischief"--popping buttons from shirts returning from the cleaners, phoning up people in the bath, ripping the last page from Agatha Christies...
Bedazzled is the product of half the Beyond the Fringe team. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore star as the devil and the chef. In addition, Cook and Moore collaborated on the original story with Cook writing the music...