Word: devilish
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...Alechinsky's beasts seem to wriggle out of the North European imagination, with flickery fingers, eyes bugging like fried eggs, toothy grins waning like quartering moons, all struggling through a welter of abstract interlace. Even when Alechinsky signs one of his lithographs, he cannot resist adding a few devilish flourishes with...
...school textbooks, a native woman who wanted the Marines to arrange a baptism, scores of requests for food and medical aid, and a village chieftain who refused to deal with anyone less than the U.S. commander himself. That commander, General Hurst, had been given little notion beforehand of the devilish difficulties that Krulak...
...second act Him shows Me a play on which he has been working, a string of nine devilish burlesques which the Theatre Company plays to the hilt with hilarious effect. Cummings' satire rapidly shatters several dramatic styles, bits of folklore, hundreds of hollow platitudes and idioms, and the comparatively serious tone of the rest of Him. One sketch has a side-walk hawker selling a miracle cure for a disease called "cinderella." Another, an off-color parody of the "Frankie and Johnnie" legend, is interrupted by a representative of the Society for the Contraception of Vice. The funniest and least...
...articles on music and drama tickle the ribs of some devilish and urgent problems, then lapse into ticking off performances and productions. The House articles remain at the architecture-and-Christmas-play stage. The article on the CRIMSON, apparently the in-group bile of some disgruntled CRIMSON editor, ignored the effects of increasing academic competition for student's time on the performance of the paper...
...their feuding fathers have constructed a wall between their homes. But the fathers are no fools. They know that youths are rebels and will want what is denied them. In "Never Say No" the girl's father (Ron Lockhart) and the boy's father (Stephen Cotler) hilariously reveal the devilish ways of adults; they have contrived the feud and constructed the wall to make sure that their children will fall in love...