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(Tony Gilroy and Jonathan Lemkin's script for The Devil's Advocate was witty and literate; Anderson's for Boogie Nights was not.)
A particularly talented Reverend Pecksniff actually averted the destruction of his empire with a tele-tearful explanation that his debauchery was sacrificial and in the line of duty: It was on-the-job training for hand-to-hand combat with the devil!, he explained.
This was one time I felt exactly like him,as we three stood pondering our dilemma calmly, maturely.And I did again when he yelled I'm scaredas the clunker with wide headlights and bad muffler("Hell Wagon" or "Devil's Dream" no doubt inscribed on the fender--voted Car Of The Year by escaped convicts and serial killers)glided like a crocodile toward our throbbing, imported taillightsand idled there.
Rockefeller's mother, Eliza, reacted to Devil Bill's criminality by putting the fear of God in her threadbare children, whom she marched to church with unfailing regularity.
The indigenous flora and fauna likewise have been carefully marketed to tourists as different : the Tasmanian tiger (now probably extinct) lives in legend and forlorn reaches of the remotest parts of the island, the Tasmanian devil (a carnivorous marsupial of undeniably fierce appearance) in tired zoos and nature parks where nonexclusive animals like the kangaroo and koala share the honors with a remarkable range of diminutive marsupials genuinely peculiar to Tassie, which have added value in an age that cultivates the notion of wilderness.
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