Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most productive economy that has so little to say for itself it has to hum it. It is hushed and shushed in dimly lighted parlors by television audiences who used to read, argue, and even play bridge, an old-fashioned card game requiring speech. It is shouted down by devil's advocates, thrown into disorder by points of order . . . subdued by soft-voiced censors." To Griswold the disorderly noises issuing from the human race may lead to ugly consequences: "Conversation . . . laid the foundation of the civilization we are dedicated to defend. It was conversation of which the New Testament...
...Vice is Now Become Alamode," they are mistaken. Their efforts will have no more permanent effect than President Dunsters when, according to Professor Morison, he emptied his horn of gunpowder in the middle of the Yard, laid a train, touched it off with a live coal, and "blew the Devil out of Harvard College...
...Delmar Jackson's The Cut of the Axe; Rocco Fumento's Devil by the Tail; S. Leonard Rubenstein's World, Barbed Wire; Eugene Brown's Trespass; Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood; and Oakley Hall's Corpus of Joe Bailey...
...therefore understandably suspicious when, one day in 1947, a middle-aged man rushed up to her in the street and said (in Gina's English translation): "Do you want to do the cinema?" "Go to the devil," replied Gina. When the fellow protested that he was really Mario Costa, the famous regista, she made him show his identity card to prove it. Gina went to work as an extra at about $3.30 a day, soon rose to be a stand-in for a well-known actress, but was fired, she says, because the star was jealous of Gina...
...iron will of the true star personality. She is up at 5 every morning, works hard until 6 in the evening, studies her part or reads scripts for an hour before bed at 10. She neither smokes nor drinks, never takes a real vacation (studio technicians for Beat the Devil called her "Lollofrigida"). On the set, says Director Vittorio De Sica, "Gina is really brava." She memorizes the whole script in advance, not just a scene at a time, as the shooting schedule calls for it. She is always on time, always "reacts immediately to advice," says Director...