Word: devil
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Hampshire, he tells me, is backing a new group called GO Against Kennedy. The organization ran ads in Shotgun News and GunWeek and used the money it brought in to pay for the stickers. That evening, during a Republican-stocked candidates' forum, Ted Kennedy is everyone's devil incarnate...
...most eccentric American movie in years, and no wonder. The director, John Huston, 73, is a genuine maverick: though his long career has included many conventional entertainments (The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King), he has always been game for such bizarre experiments as Beat the Devil, Freud and Reflections in a Golden Eye. This time, Huston has found material that was all but guaranteed to fuel the battiest recesses of his imagination. Wise Blood is based on Flannery O'Connor's extraordinary first novel, which infused the conventions of Southern gothic fiction with fiery Catholicism...
Speak of the devil. First Evangelist Billy Graham, in England for a 21-day revival on the Oxbridge campuses, slipped in his bathtub, bruising ribs and brewing a painful case of pleurisy. Then, as an overflow audience of 20,000 jammed Oxford's scruffy town hall to hear a Southern-drawled sermon on sin, a number of students decided to be sophomoric. Some heckled Graham as a fascist, others set off the hall's fire alarm and cut closed-circuit TV cables that were carrying his message to 5,000 listeners in five other auditoriums. The preacher...
...Smiley's People, De Carre (1 last week) 2. The Devil's Alternative, Forsyth (7) 3. Princess Daisy, Krantz (4) 4. Memories of Another Day, Robbins (2) 5. Jailbird, Vonnegut (3) 6. Triple, Follett (5) 7. The Executioner's Song, Mailer (6) 8. The Establishment, Fast (9) 9. The Last Enchantment, Stewart (10) 10. Portraits, Freeman
...Devil's Alternative, Forsyth...