Word: fiendishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quality-young innocence cruelly hurt. The papers made the most of it. The victim was "pretty" (the Chronicle}, "vivacious" (the Examiner), "deeply religious" (the News-Call Bulletin). As doctors tried in vain to save April's right eye, news stories frothed at her assailant. He was "fiendish" (the Examiner), "sadistic" (the News-Call Bulletin), "probably a sexual psychopath" (the Chronicle). Swathed in bandages and an eye patch, April posed bravely for photographers and forgave her attacker: "Anyone who is like that-we ought to feel sorry for him." But having latched onto surefire excitement, San Francisco...
...test went on to two heads, one by the 16th century Italian painter Annibale Carracci and one an excellent copy by a contemporary. But the most fiendish items were three drawings of a Mother and Child, all apparently Picassos...
...There goes that job in London-unless . . . With fiendish glee, Cagney plants a Wall Street Journal in the groom's motorcycle, gets the poor patsy clapped in a Communist clink. But Cagney stops milking his gloat when he finds himself snapped in his own trap. The boss's daughter turns out to be pregnant, and the boss himself announces that he will arrive in Berlin within 24 hours. Problem: in that one little old puckered-up day that he has left, can Cagney 1) spring the groom from his East German cell, and 2) convert him into...
...routine, competent British fang opera filmed, as many of the new scare shows are, in a color process that seems peculiarly sensitive to red. The picture contains an inspired scene. As a priest holds a pretty little baby (destined to be a werewolf) over a baptismal font, a fiendish face appears suddenly in the depths of the font and the holy water bubbles to a rolling boil. The scriptwriters have also provided an unwittingly hilarious line. After slaughtering five sheep and draining them of blood, the werewolf, now a fat little boy, is called to lunch by his fond stepmother...
...chief trouble with Miss Tandy's over-all conception is that her Lady Macbeth is not the "fiendlike queen she should be. We can believe that she is regional, but we are never convinced that she is fiendish...