Word: devils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mischievousness -- a compound of forgivable prankishness, a bit of secretiveness, some expectable sibling rivalry -- is not just a boyish phase? What if it is actually the first sprouting of a very bad seed? Meet Henry Evans (Macaulay Culkin). Who would believe that polite, sweet-smiling Henry is actually the devil's spawn? Not his doting parents, who are still grieving over the presumably accidental death of his younger brother. Not his visiting cousin Mark (Elijah Wood), who is also in mourning for his recently deceased mother and eager at first to overlook a few scary eccentricities. Not the audience...
Oded Ben-Ami, a spokesman for Rabin, watched it in wonder. "It was a handshake with someone who just a moment ago was the devil in person," he said, "and from now on is your partner in negotiation." The Lebanese daily L'Orient-Le Jour made a cooler but no less momentous assessment: "A prodigious moment this handshake, soberly, none too warmly exchanged between Rabin and Arafat, as if they were crushed by the terrible responsibility that their historic gesture condemned them to share." This is the stuff of modern diplomatic power. It is impulsive and ephemeral and can vanish...
...DEVIL IN THE NUMBERS...
...might be poor," says Oprah Winfrey, "but we ain't sellin' our soul to the devil today." The cameras are rolling as Winfrey, a TV talk-show host who is said to earn more than $40 million a year, tackles her newest role, that of LaJoe Rivers, an impoverished mother of eight children struggling to survive in the Henry Horner Homes, a violent Chicago housing project. The movie, which will air on ABC in November, is the first serious film from Harpo, Winfrey's production company. It's based on the nonfiction best seller There Are No Children Here...
...Greg took out a carving knife, walked to the door of his mother's kitchen and called her by her nickname. "Come here, Pooh," he said several times, holding the knife where she could see it. "I thought my mom was possessed by the devil," Greg now recalls. "My plan was to scare the devil out of her, literally." Gloria ran into the bedroom. The Allers began barricading their bedroom door at night. Bob and Greg argued at one point, and Greg kicked his father and threatened to kill him. On Jan. 23 he packed his things and moved...