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...said she would miss Fonseca’s “devil-may-care presence and good-natured dedication” and called him “a very talented filmmaker...
Potts, who lived across the hall from Zakrzewski freshman year, says she thinks of Zakrzewski’s floor-length, bright red coat as emblematic of her bold fashion sense—which she can carry off because of her petite figure and devil-may-care attitude...
Cicadas look scary with their vaguely devil-shaped heads, but they're really harmless, and some communities even look forward to their arrival. Cincinnati, Ohio, for example, is planning cicada festivals, parties and even meals. Gene Kritsky, a cicada expert, is testing out a new recipe this year, cicada chowder. But entomologist John Cooley, who studies cicadas at the University of Connecticut, won't touch it. "Seventeen years underground just to end up as someone's dinner?" he says. "They're too marvelous to waste...
...music is about popularity; performance is about personality. And an Idol contestant who gets over on charm or a touching story is in good company. Singers have always used biography, real or concocted, to bond with their audience: Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil, Loretta Lynn growing up a coal miner's daughter. (If only Sid and Nancy had a reality show.) Who a singer is and how he or she lived don't just drive the audience's interest but, at best, inform the performance. In Porgy and Bess, for instance, Clara sings Summertime to her baby...
...dead wife via cloning, only to fall in love with the surrogate mother carrying the cloned embryo. With his course work finished, Leven decided to take a leave from Yale to work of his dissertation. But that was soon shelved for another novel, Satan, about the psychotherapy of the Devil, in which he again merged his considerable writing abilities with his experiences from psychiatry and neuroscience to generate another critically-lauded bestseller...