Word: fiendishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They adored each other, aped each other ("twin costumes of silk and velvet . . . identical flowing black ties"). Their quarrels were fiendish. Their cook, looking out of the window at 2 a.m., might descry Mummy, "her pink nightgown streaming behind her, rushing headlong down 97th Street toward Madison, screaming: 'I'll throw myself under the first streetcar!' " One morning, when she appeared with arm in sling, her right eye bruised she explained grandly: "I stumbled over a champagne case in the dark...
...Fiendish Brutality...
...keynote address by the governor of Tennessee was a new low in American politics for fiendish hate, diabolical slander, coldblooded assassination, murder of truth, perversion of history and vituperation...
...with ferocious Mau Mau taking the place of rampaging Sioux and a biff-bang ending that has Victor Mature standing knee-deep in corpses just as the soldiers come charging to the rescue. Along the way are the usual scenes of trumpeting elephants, petulant rhinos, man-eating lions and fiendish crocodiles with an eye for a pretty girl-in this instance, Janet Leigh. In fact, most of the denizens have their eye on Janet, possibly because she romps invitingly about the camp in negligee and paddles nude in jungle pools. Only stout Victor remains impervious while he tracks down...
Richard III. Shakespeare's sinister parable of power is made into a darkly magnificent film by Sir Laurence Olivier, who plays the title role with fiendish skill and satanic majesty. The supporting cast: Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Claire Bloom, Pamela Brown (TIME, March...