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Word: devil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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This is the most piquant of the family plays, an agile display of comic irony and sociocultural observation. It takes place on a California patio, that never-ever land. It includes a middle-aged husband whose wife has been made desolate by his supposed philandering. Actually, the poor devil has long been impotent, his only mistress being an omnipresent slug of 100-proof oblivion. The couple's unemployed son lives in a '51 Pontiac in the garage. He objects to a mobile home on the grounds that it would be "too permanent." Their daughter is a nude, neurotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Crop of Kentucky Foals | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...Princess Daisy, Krantz (3 last week) 2. The Bourne Identity, Ludlum (5) 3. The Devil's Alternative, Forsyth (1) 4. Smiley's People, Le Carré (2) 5. Portraits, Freeman (6) 6. Who's on First, Buckley (9) 7. The Top of the Hill, Shaw (10) 8. Memories of Another Day, Robbins (7) 9. Triple, Follett (4) 10. The Third World War, Hackett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...Devil's Alternative, Forsyth (1 last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...Devil's Alternative, Forsyth (2 last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...Devil's Alternative, Forsyth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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