Word: devils
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Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Craig's Wife" at 5:30p.m. A portrait of a housewife who walls herselfup, brick by brick, in a tomb of her own making."Devil in the Flesh" at 7:30 p.m.Recollections of the young warrior who, during theArmistice celebrations in 1918, follows hisgirlfriend's funeral at a distance. "Night ofthe Hunter" at 10 p.m. Portrayal of the ordeal anunscrupulous man inflicts on two children in orderto find where their deceased father has hidden...
...George was a good straight boy to beginwith," Waits mutters in "Crossroads," one of thetunes Burroughs wrote, "but there was bad blood inhim someway he got into the magic bullets and thatleads straight to Devil's work, just likemarrywanna leads to heroin...
...songs. These pieces were recorded over a three-year span: some in conjunction with Wilson's work in Hamburg, some back in the U.S. with Waits' own band. At the core of Wilson's Black Rider is a Faustian tale of a peasant who makes a pact with the devil. The peasant gets a set of magic bullets, thinking they will enable himto win a marksmanship contest and with it, histrue love; however, the devil has different plans,and the poor peasant goes crazy when the lastmagic bullet kills his beloved. Waits' Far Easternmelodies, punishing staccatos, and derangedwaltzes evoke...
...Hope High School Bobcats quarterback who distinctly resembled Mack McLarty. Sandy Berger, the deputy National Security Adviser, turned up as Yasser Arafat, his wife as Yitzhak Rabin. Arkansas pals Diane and Jim Blair pretended to be James Carville and Mary Matalin. Webb Hubbell and his wife came as the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, and one guest, dressed as Lincoln, passed out little cards that read, "They have a nice bedroom in this house...
Griffelkin, inspired by Foss's childhood recollection of a German fairy tale about a little devil who comes to earth to find love and happiness, has been repeatedly composed, decomposed and recomposed over the past 63 years (the composer, 71, wrote a first version when he was eight). It is a modest children's opera whose chief characteristic is its inoffensive, generic amiability...