Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first section is entitled "The world," the second. "The Flesh," the third, "The Devil," and the last, "Home...
Many of the pictures in "The Flesh." "The Devil," and "Home" have the same autographic, arty quality as the cityscapes of "The world." People in rigid poses are strained into architectonic, formally abstract surroundings; heads are cropped off; expressions and compositions are strange but not descriptive...
...board, he completely redesigned the plane to meet British specifications. At that time he was also working on what would become one of the most celebrated U.S. fighter planes in World War II, the twin-boom P-38 Lightning, which awed Luftwaffe pilots called der Gabelschwanz Teufel (Fork-Tailed Devil). Even before the first Lightning took off, Johnson shrewdly anticipated a problem that would soon plague all high-speed aircraft...
...sternly Puritan advocate of the work ethic, who, it turns out, is also a patron of dirty movies. The mother is an indulgent Christian who takes the first opportunity to renounce any responsibility she may bear for her son's condition: Alan was a fine boy until the Devil came along, she says. It is enough to personify Dionysus and Apollo; the stage buckles under the added weight of Marx and Christ...
...area celebrated by Berlitz is the heavily traveled stretch of sea extending roughly from Bermuda in the north to Miami and beyond Puerto Rico on the south. It has been known variously as the Triangle of Death, the Devil's Triangle and the Hoodoo Sea. Berlitz reports that some 100 ships and planes carrying a total of more than 1,000 persons have mysteriously disappeared without a trace while traversing the triangle, most of them since 1945. Those statistics may well be the most indisputable facts in the book...