Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very least, Pravda's little sermon represents 1) a step in the unmaking of the Stalin legend, 2) one more indication that Russia is not now ruled by one man, i.e., Malenkov, but by a directorate. In New York, the Daily Worker, which has been having the devil's own time trying to find a party line to follow, significantly hedged its bet last week. After an initial hesitation, the Worker had firmly called the new regime "the Malenkov government." Last week, in a classically awkward phrase, it urged Eisenhower to meet with "heads of the Soviet state...
...Warner Phonic sound (multiple sound tracks and speakers) mostly for recording eerie musical effects and the screams of ingenues. The picture was photographed in Natural Vision 3-D (TIME, Dec. 15, 1952), and calls for Polaroid spectacles. Although the Natural Vision is an improvement on that in Bwana Devil, it still becomes blurry at times, and there is often little illusion of depth, particularly in closeups. The picture's writing and direction are also blurry, and the extra dimension is used primarily as a trick. All sorts of objects pop out at the audience from the screen: fists...
...Told Him." Swaffer freely admitted that his verdicts were capricious: "I judge people by my liver." After damning a show which he had verbally praised, Swaffer apologized to the manager: "When I sit down to write my criticism, the devil takes possession of me." Actor-Author Noel Coward once refused him first-night tickets, said he couldn't act if Swaffer was in the theater. "You're a better actor than you are a writer," Swaffer told him. Snapped Coward...
...mature feeling and craft. At 15, he hit out on his own in the literary life of Paris. At 17, he brought out his first volume of poetry and wrote his first novel. Le Diable an Corps (recently made into a French film and shown in the U.S. as Devil in the Flesh), the story of an adolescent love affair...
Substitution. In Lake Geneva, Wis., members of the Methodist Church Adult Fellowship dropped a scheduled discussion of "The Women-What Should Be Done About Them and How Do We Go About It," instead talked about "The Devil...