Word: diabolice
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, is a blood sport as well as a play. The weapons are words-vicious, cruel, unspeakably humiliating, unpredictably hilarious-the language of personal annihilation. Jabbing, slashing, eviscerating each other are a middle-aged history professor and his wife. "It is...
Sir: The vampire who is responsible for the publication of pages from the JFK Coloring Book [June 8] should get on his knees and pray God's forgiveness for the most pernicious, diabolic, venomous, ruthless, inhuman attack of all.
Shown in France, the picture delighted the public, astonished the critics, won the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes. Part of its appeal, no doubt, derives from the timeless charm of the old legend itself, which Scenarist Jacques Viot has adapted simply and gracefully. Orpheus is a Rio streetcar conductor; Eurydice...
Diabolic Ties. It was in this setting that Proust met the original of Swann, Charles Haas, who referred to himself as "the only Jew ever to be accepted by Parisian society without being immensely rich." Perhaps the most decadent and diabolical habitue of the salons was Comte Robert de Montesquieu...
Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin's songs, Pearl Bailey's lusty singing and Sammy Davis Jr.'s diabolic portrayal of Sportin' Life pep up Sam Goldwyn's ponderous, $7,000,000 film version (in wide-screen Todd-AO and lush color) of America's...