Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northern and Southern Democrats at each other's throats at the very outset of the 1955 session. The man who killed the plan was Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, once the noisiest and most reckless of the South-baiters. Humphrey urged his friends to "abandon the devil theory of politics," i.e., to recognize their Southern colleagues as reasonable, constructive men rather than as fiends from the pit. Humphrey prevailed, and after that it was easy going for the Democrats. Next day Georgia's Senator Walter George, quoting Alexander Hamilton (a factionalist if ever there...
Anyone remembering Beat The Devil or Porter's own gangsters in Kate, knows the potential in the three bumbling agents who are sent out from Moscow to retrieve an errant comrade. The trio is wasted, however, in a show which can afford no waste; their "Siberia" number is as flat and as cold as that overworked land itself. In two other instances, "The Red Blues" and "Too Bad," they are joined by the entire chorus for masterpieces of staging and action. Since the audience is at no time caught by the musical, this brilliant motion is another waste--more pointless...
...year boomed to a close in a thunder of publicity for the big holiday releases, two pictures stood out as notable Hollywood productions-and neither was made in Hollywood. John Huston's Beat the Devil, written by Truman Capote and shot in Italy, was a magnificent leg-pull: a kind of dipsoid tirade of brilliant comic invention, played with a cross-eyed, morning-after charm by a fine cast (Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre). On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan's burly piece of camereering along the docksides of Hoboken, had excellent photography, though the drama...
...Neapolitan air, he stopped and remarked casually: "My father cut his throat," then went back to singing. Byron was word-perfect in his monster role before he was out of his teens. Henceforth, the clubfoot and the sensitive heart hid themselves in the disguise of a cold, cloven-hoofed devil. On his brow, at a moment's notice, would appear "that singular scowl" which caused one acquaintance to exclaim that he "had never seen a man with such a Cain-like mark on the forehead." A Pair of Stays. A Miss Elizabeth Pigot had the honor of discovering that...
...adulation, the lionizing, came precisely at a moment when he had determined "to present himself . . . in moral masquerade" and to invent fantastic stories about the viciousness of his nature. "His voice," said a Mrs. Opie with gushing horror, "was such a voice as the devil tempted Eve with; you feared its fascination the moment you heard it." "His head," noted a Miss Berry, "begins to be turned by all the adoration . . . especially [that of] the women." Byron himself summed it up succinctly, triumphantly. "I have made them afraid of me," he said...