Word: fiending
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...with bravado, he was a compelling figure. At some points he was consumed with ecstasy; at others he cried out in agony. Sometimes he looked like a harmless, forgotten old man, and then, a minute later, his eyes would glint and he would look like an imp, or a fiend...
...action opens in the latter region, where His Satanic Majesty has acquired a painful sty in his evil little eye. This, his ministers agree, is when a fellow needs a fiend. They remind Mephisto that "a woman's chastity is a sty in the Devil's Eye.'' and point out the perfection that has caused his infection-the virgin daughter (Bibi Andersson) of an innocent country parson (Nils Poppe). "Where innocence is greatest.'' Mephisto murmurs wickedly, "evil is nearest...
...Martin's charm, the least of Hayward's flim-flamboyance. And in Ralph Meeker he viciously personifies the police power in a native Fascist regime. But it is Actor White-a British trouper usually cast as a potty colonel, a flaccid vicar, or a dear old rose fiend in Sussex-who domi nates the audience as a waving cobra fascinates a mouse. With his small, reptilian grin and oily suppleness, he conveys the immemorial image of the big political snake, the everlasting reason why you can't fight city hall...
...vacation spot, Cartoonist Charles (Monster Rally) Addams gave Town & Country Magazine a reply that left the city fathers of Tucson, Ariz., wondering whether they had been panned or praised. Said Addams, whose macabre drawings feature a ghoul-infested mansion occupied by a gaunt female vampire, a fat male fiend and a child ogre: "I have never been there, but from what I hear, it sounds like my kind of town...
...loving power, craves omnipotence on earth, Goethe's, loving wisdom, seeks omniscience. Power inspires sharper drama than knowledge, particularly for those without the German to follow Faust's speculations and soliloquizings. Goethe's Mephistopheles, on the other hand, boasts some of the internationalism of Hell. Less fiend than cold-blooded mocker and cynic, he is full of wit and mischief, and Gustaf Gründgens, who plays him nimbly enough, has the one role that can often make action as expressive as words...