Word: tophet
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...third outing as the stand-up Supreme Being, George Burns, 88, adds a new wrinkle: he also plays Satan. Quotable quips from Writer Andrew Bergman (The In-Laws) include the Lord's back-lot zinger, "I put the fear of me in you," and Talent Agent Harry O. Tophet's devilish irreverence, "He had to close the big dining room up there." Tophet cuts a deal with a young songwriter (Ted Wass), offering fame in exchange for his soul. Director Paul Bogart's muzzy little comedy appropriately pivots on the Burns-Burns confrontation when Lucifer...
...Almanac goes to press before any of the usual seasonal signs appear: the nut stores of squirrels, or woollybear caterpillars (TIME, Nov. 8). Mr. Weatherwise just hauls off and predicts.* How in tophet does he do it? This week, in the New York Times Magazine, Almanac Publisher Robb Sagendorph, who does business in Dublin, N.H., stuck his Yankee tongue in his cheek and drawled a few clues...
Though the works as tough Tophet...
Aroint ye, Wantons! Back to your stews, Ye paramours of Tophet...
...domain larger than Belgium, wilder than Abyssinia, more visited than Rome, colder than Moose Factory and hotter than Tophet, a fabulously scenic empire scattered over half a continent, quietly changed hands last week. In Washington, Secretary of the Interior Ickes announced that effective Aug. 9, Arno Berthold Cammerer would be the third director of the National Park Service. His job: to introduce the U. S. people to the grandeur of their own amazing outdoors...
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