Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast did not always do so well: the three weird sisters, along with many of the supporting players, often seemed as drowned in gibberish as in mist. For next season, Evans and Schaefer are thinking of deserting Shakespeare for Shaw: Evans has already taken TV options on The Devil's Disciple and Man and Superman...
...earliest Hemingway-the versatile, outdoors-loving son of respected Dr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Hemingway. Later Oak Park's people wondered, as one of them put it, "how a boy brought up in Christian and Puritan nurture should know and write so well of the devil and the underworld." (He was born a Congregationalist, became a practicing Roman Catholic, now apparently does not go to church). The city room of the Kansas City Star saw him fresh out of high school and itchy for excitement. He left after only seven months of covering "the short-stop run" -police, railroad...
...while it seemed that thoughtful Christmas shoppers would give gifts of personalized Polaroid glasses. After Robert Stack in the pioneering 3 D film Batana Devil, nauseated millions by coming "right out of the screen to kiss you," there was a spate of 3-D films. Besides being terrible in their own right, they employed the crudest possible devices to remind audiences that they were witnessing something new in entertainment. Finally, when everyone was getting mighty tried of locomotives, spears, chairs and other doodads hurtling at them in mediocre technicolor, fox announced its new program of CinemaScope, opening new vistas...
...display, his inner turmoil, in direct contrast to the suffering-out of the same internal agitation by adolescents of yesteryear." Among Lindner's examples: four Brooklyn youths arrested last August, among other things, for beating an old man to death in a park-as Lindner puts it, "a devil's rosary of crimes ranging from rape to murder, and all stamped with an unbelievable degree of sadism." Another of his examples: the New Zealand girl. Pauline Parker, 16, who savagely murdered her mother, assisted by a girl friend, Juliet Hulme, 15. Both, says Lindner, quoting from news reports...
...hero of the film--if it has a hero--is a little street urchin, Pedro, whose fault is to ally himself with an equally miserable delinquent, Jaibo, who becomes his personal devil. "Born but to die, and living but to err," Pedro is a picture of the frustrated potentiality which is typical of the characters in the movie. When he wants to become a "good boy," his mother throws him out into the street; when he stops Jaibo from beating a friend over the head, the friend is already dead. When he gets a job, Jaibo causes him to lose...