Her maid, a Mephistophelean character, tries to strike a bargain for the Empress with the young, somewhat crude wife of a poor village dyer : In exchange for her shadow, the dyer's wife will receive jewels and riches.
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The most obviously Mephistophelean character is Baltar ( Luis Miguel Cintra ), who wears his slick black hair parted in the middle, dresses in black and periodically flashes his beady brown eyes and throws back his head to let out a demonic cackle.
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Their wedding is a libertine's dream, with guests randomly coupling in the gloaming and the groom clutching his sister while issuing such potted Mephistophelean maxims as " Alive, we are like bound gods _ only death can cleanse ."
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Ramey's " ho, ho, ho " has an eerie Mephistophelean vehemence . ) But he sings " Embraceable You " with seamless lyricism and spins out " Begin the Beguine " with the seductive charm of Don Giovanni.
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His unhappy Timon, on the other hand, emerges as a sort of Mephistophelean quiz show host, urging those who seek him out in his hermit's lair to take the gold he has found there and employ it toward the destruction of the civilized world.
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While its Faust, a hapless real-estate agent by the name of Joe Stratford, starts off as an engaging enough hero, his Mephistophelean tempter _ a fast-talking former IRS agent named Marcus Burns _ is never even momentarily believable as a persuasive con man.
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PLUSES : Nicholson's portrayal of Schmidt, a sad, stooped-over retiree on the verge of old age, is the furthest thing from the flaming, Mephistophelean rebels that have been his specialty, and it stands as one of his two or three greatest screen performances.
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And more than 1, 000 people attended the party at the new Versace store on 52d Street and Fifth Avenue, while the Mephistophelean V . I . P . room, aglow with red light, housed Sheryl Crow, Kyra Sedgewick, Jeffrey Wright, Mira Sorvino and the second-actors.
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He is subsequently visited by a Mephistophelean being ( who says, in effect, " that you can only see me because you are mad, does not mean that I do not really exist " ), and, renouncing love, bargains his soul in exchange for twenty-four years of genius.
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He plays Applegate, the Mephistophelean figure who persuades a nice old man to sell his soul to become the star player who can finally give the Washington Senators a shot at the World Series . ( Lewis admits he once wanted to play for those damn Yankees, but he quickly traded his glove for the greasepaint .)
