Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fake motel rooms, where they have long moral battles about whether or not to steal the fake bath towels. The town seems to be run by Rance Muhammitz (played by Theodore Bikel, a real actor), who is either a TV quiz show moderator or a Nazi officer or the devil. It's hard to tell which...
...Capobianco, and gave then free dramatic rein. In those hands even old familiars like Gounod's Faust became provocative productions. In 1968, for instance, Corsaro transformed the simple good-conquers-evil parable of that libretto into a chilling Gothic horror tale of clashing wills between God and the devil. A year later, Capobianco launched Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele a a space-age sonet lumière production in which the devil seemed about to vanquish the music of the spheres until he was whistled down at final curtain. Contemporary operas seldom fare well with the public, but Alberto...
...minor minor poet pickled in absinthe who harbors a paranoiac conviction: people who ignore his slim volumes, The Ultimate Nil and Fungoids, are turning their backs on a late 19th century Milton. He desperately yearns to know posterity's judgment and makes a pact with the devil to spend a few hours 100 years hence in the library of the British Museum. There he finds that the brief and only mention of the name Enoch Soames is in a short story by Max Beerbohm...
...Prissier College" football uniform to bolster his confidence. At times, the mimicry of Nixon's manner and cadences is brilliant. Alternating between the Swiftian and the sophomoric, Roth has Dixon assassinated by drowning in an oversized Baggie and ending up in Hell, running for the office of Devil against Satan himself...
...practitioners believe very strongly in polygamy as God's law. They must: polygamy is no redoubt for the lickerish. "Prayer is 99% of our existence, if not 100%," the pressman explains. "If a person goes into this principle who is selfish, lustful or jealous, it will make a devil out of him." Whatever his spiritual resources, though, the man with three wives has serious worldly problems. Just the simple recreational act of going to a drive-in movie has potential for domestic havoc. "We fight over who will sit by him," says one wife. "So we go to triple...