Only the Yankees come close, but compared to the Devils, models of frugality and organizational discipline, the Yankees are spendthrifts and wastrels.
As the lights first went off for the show to begin and then a ghostly mist rose, the models came out wearing clothes that seemed to be impregnated with an imprint: bows molded into the surface of a dress like a smothering of kisses; a painted swish of a red-brown oni, or Japanese devil, mimicking the model's hair; and patterns shimmering and playing with light.
Klein: It's true, Chris, the Devils have been the model of consistency for so many years (or at least the second model of consistency, after the Red Wings).
The expression of his lost life is seen when he is sculpting a huge model of Devils Tower in his living room, with his family deserting him.
Joe Quesada considered it "serendipity in action" that Affleck is the lead role, as when he and Kevin Smith did the Guardian Devil series, they had modeled it on Affleck.
They see the model as the devil.
Bradlee is the very model of the devil-may-care Wasp — his entertaining new memoir, "A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures" (Simon & Schuster; $27.50), gives the lie to Socrates' idea that the unexamined life is not worth living — but it was clear then, in the summer of 1981, that he had seen a life's work nearly destroyed by a rookie reporter he had hardly known.
The Devils, too, are a quiet model of consistency: The club is on pace for its 18th straight winning season this year, while the 2007 opening of Newark's Prudential Center has pushed the club's valuation up 50% in two years, making life in the shadow of the New York Rangers more tolerable.
If the Rangers wish to model themselves after the Devils, as Coach Glen Sather often says, then Saturday's loss at Continental Arena showed just how far they have to go.
This stage resulted in 215 of 281 devil proteins used to build 215 coding models.
