Word: fiendishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Actress Monique Van Vooren, 41, land the starring role of Frankenstein's sister in Andy Warhol's movie of that name? Says Writer/Director Paul Morrissey, "She has fiendish beauty." Then he described Monique's role. "She gets loved to death. Monique makes love to the monster, and he embraces her so passionately that he crushes her backbone. It's all in 3-D." Dimensions intact, Monique turned up at Rudolf Nureyev's opening night with the National Ballet Company of Canada in Manhattan last week on the arm of Warhol. Hugging them both...
...itself. Haydn was unaccustomed to writing virtuoso solo parts since he was not a virtuoso performer himself. But this concerto, written for (and perhaps with the aid of) the principal cellist of Prince Esterhazy's private orchestra, abounds with the most difficult technical feats: monstrous intervals and arpeggios, fiendish scales, and intricate double-stop passages, all of which Yo-Yo seemed to play effortlessly...
...example from the famous Shadow Over Innsmouth will suffice. The plot concerns a doomed Massachussetts fishing town whose population is obscenely corrupted by intermingling with a race of fiendish undersea creatures. Learning all this, the narrator attempts to flee. On the outskirts of town, he looks back and sees his pursuers "in a limitless stream-flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating, surging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare...
Sure enough, at week's end the bloodletting resumed with what Belfast police could only describe as "a fiendish crime." Two girls struck up a conversation with four off-duty British soldiers in a bar, then led them off to an apartment in a Catholic district. One of the girls left, ostensibly to get more girls for the party. Instead, she returned with two gunmen. They forced the soldiers to lie face down on a bed, calmly raked them with bursts of submachine-gun fire, then fled with the girls. One of the soldiers was wounded; the other three...
Politicians on both sides expressed shock over what Protestant M.P. James Kilfedder described as "fiendish acts of terrorism." Outrage shifted from the I.R.A., which had been carrying out savage bombings late last year, to the U.D.A. and the savage Protestant shootings that are taking place this year. "The time for pussyfooting with the U.D.A. has now ended," fumed Catholic Parliamentary Leader John Hume. "The British government must face up to it or there will be no resolution of the Northern Ireland problem...