Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Screw or Rat, and they are the Seventh Avenue equivalent of those magazines. They are not putting a nude picture on the front page but they should, and that's where they don't go far enough." For good measure, Tiffeau adds that Fairchild has "the power of the devil...
...devil? John Fairchild? A man with a cherubic face and dimple in his chin? It seems unbelievable. But it is true that his power scares the hades out of many fashion figures who are not as outspoken as Tiffeau. When interviewed by TIME reporters, several designers said nice things about Fairchild on the record and then nasty things off. For attribution, one said: "Fairchild is a genius." Not for attribution, he added: "His type of journalism is despicable. He is the Mafia godfather of the industry...
...Hawthorne's allegorical short story, Young Goodman Brown, the ingenuous Puritan wanders into the forest one dark night and catches all his friends, neighbors and saintly village elders in mortal sin-in this case devil worship. It might have been just a dream, but it made a lifelong cynic of young Brown. Much the same thing happened not long ago to a young reporter named Charley Thompson, who wandered into Jacksonville. Fla. The sin was not devil worship but pollution, a suitable modern equivalent. And it was no dream...
...Texas] on top of him, hitting him on the head and stabbing him, and the man was struggling, and then I saw Katie [Defendant Patricia Krenwinkel] in the background with the girl, chasing after her with an upraised knife . . ." Watson, she said, told his victims: "I'm the devil here to do the devil's work...
...become an intellectual revolutionary, it is necessary to give up being an intellectual." The collective members have not become scholars of ancient revolutions but rather what Stokeley Carmichael calls "students of the revolution." Their studies have taught them the importance of high-energy media: in Sympathy For The Devil (1+1) the Rolling Stones build from a low-key ballad to a revolutionary anthem ("I killed the Czar and his ministers") while Godard's smoothly moving camera records the potential relationship of the media to the Black Panthers, and the use of media in determining sexual roles (the pornography store...