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...finest and riskiest poems is "The Fiend," which Dickey talked about in Richard Tillinghast's English C section. This poem depicts a voyeur in action...
Apart from what he is saying, only this glitter and his expressive use of his hands give him away for being a poet. His exterior seems particularly unexotic if one has come fresh from hearing him read poems about bestiality ("The Sheep Child"), voyeurism and sexual assault ("The Fiend"), the bombing of civilians ("The Firebombing"), and adultery ("Adultery"). "Nothing is excluded from the poetic conscioueness," Dickey proclaims. "Anything that happens to your mind is grist for your mill...
...physical fitness fiend," one colleague reminisced. "You were most likely to find him on the Cambridge Common playing baseball with kids...
...collect her fee from the late magnate's chief competitors. She offers him a cigar; this time it is too slow on the draw, and Drummond tails her to a rendezvous with her boss, the inevitable master criminal. In his previous incarnations, Carl Petersen was presented as a fiend "whose inhuman calm acted on Drummond like a cold douche"; in this film, he is introduced as an Oilfinger (Nigel Green) who extorts a tribute of terror from the big petroleum cartels...
...himself has been cut from this movie, and his sometime antagonist, steely-eyed Sir Denis Nayland Smith, reduced to an Adams House sophomore with identity hang-ups, but it is to Hunter's glory that something of the spirit of the Asiatic fiend lingers...