Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House nor ITT had any comment on the Colson memo last week; neither did McLaren, who on Dec. 2, 1971, was appointed by President Nixon to a federal judgeship. Colson, however, insisted that as "a good staff guy," he had merely been playing the part of "a devil's advocate"-outlining the problems that the Judiciary Committee might raise "in their worst context...
...alias "Papillon" (Butterfly), whose 1969 book of the same name chronicled his nine hair-raising escape attempts from France's antiquated dungeons in French Guiana; of throat cancer; in Madrid. Charrière, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1931 for murder, finally broke out of Devil's Island in 1941 and found asylum in Caracas, where he became a gold prospector, shrimp fisherman, bar owner and eventually a best-selling author, with 14 million book sales worldwide...
...violent nature were not enough, the promoters took a Satanic hand in prompting it. The loudspeaker system blared the live version of "Sympathy for the Devil," the song that had provided the background music for the cinematic murder at Altamont, the song that Jagger described: "Something strange always seems to happen every time we play that song." They played this song, to a crowd that had been pushed, shoved, and compressed into a solid mass of seething tensions. Remember Woodstock? Remember Altamont. And get out of there...
...Devil's Eye. Bergman just can't be thinking those incredibly heavy thoughts all the time, and in this film he just has a lot of fun. Bergman directs Satan to send Don Juan back to the mortal world on the not unpleasant mission of seducing Bibi Andersson, to the delight of earthly and subterranean audiences alike. Channel...
...differences in their personalities showed up in the different games they played. Connors was a brassy player, a big hitter who missed a lot. He played a wild game, laying it all on the line on every shot, high on a devil's dare. Down 6-5 and receiving in the third set he would hit out and go for winners. And on match point he'd rush the net on a straight line and curve short to crosscourt an underspin backhand off his toes. He spiced up his play with plenty of theatrics on the side--yelling, swearing, screaming...