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...might need it." Debbie Holmes stopped by the house to drop off food, but Andrea would not let her in. Holmes doubted whether Rusty realized the severity of Andrea's depression; she believed he was not "big" on pills. Holmes also believed her friend had been possessed by the devil, something the two discussed after her 1999 illness, say sources close to the case. About this time in 2001, the sources say, Holmes was worried that the demons had returned a hundredfold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yates Odyssey | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

...first three Spillane titles, Hammer graduates from being the legal system (I the Jury) to the police force (My Gun Is Quick) to God Almighty (Vengeance Is Mine). But Mike doesn't think he's God. And the Devil he often wrestles with is himself. As the series of novels wore on, and Spillane perhaps winced at the criticism of them, Hammer occasionally goes into auto-critique mode. What has he become? What made him that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince of Pulp | 7/22/2006 | See Source »

...second assistant - the one who brings in the coffee and picks up the dry cleaning - and she is, incidentally, not fat by any standards other than those that pertain in the skin-and-bones world of high-gloss women's publications. She is, however, smart - especially in The Devil Wears Prada's early going - when she's wearing her ratty working journalist clothes and sporting her total ignorance of, and contempt for, the deeply silly values Runway promotes. In context, it imparts to her an air of mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil Wears Thin | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

...ultra chic one year eventually trickles down to Wal-Mart, where , in knock-off form, it makes everyone a little happier. This struck me as a pretty desperate rationalization. But then I glanced around the theater where I happened to be catching an early morning show of The Devil Wears Prada. It was full of large women in blue jeans who were not present to enjoy Andrea's moral triumph over the temptations of La Dolce Vita. They were there for the clothes, the bright chatter, the pretty people, the handsome arrangement of every shot in the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil Wears Thin | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

...There's another force that wants to keep us from going to Washington, D.C. It's the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jul. 3, 2006 | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

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