Word: hell-bent
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...Truly Hell-Bent...
...1950s is remembered more for its sociology than for its politics. After a decade of depression and four years of war, the nation was hell-bent on normality. Neither the Korean conflict nor McCarthyism could distract Americans from their rush to claim a place in the rapidly expanding middle class. The standard rerun of the period features sincere men in gray flannel suits and contented women in kitchen aprons smiling at Mr. Clean. And why not? Coincidentally or not, he looked a lot like their amiable President, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...sole overreaching policy the international community has proffered, is an ineluctable shambles. Lord Owen himself, co-purveyor of that % scheme, which proposes to divide Bosnia into 10 provinces drawn along ethnic lines, acknowledged last week that bombing Serb supply lines may be necessary after all. "If they are hell-bent on taking other towns, then we will have to meet this assault on Muslim towns with military action," he said...
Icounted. Al Pacino, fire-mouthed, hell-bent and irresistably cool, had indeed said it over 160 times. "Fuck." "Fuck you." "You fucking asshole." "Get the fuck out of here." By the time he landed dead in a pool swelling with the red of his own blood at the end of "Scarface," Pacino had become a hero to the dispossessed. He was the toughest bad guy in Hollywood, and only a wave of submachine-gun fire powerful enough to crack the USS New Jersey in two could bring him to his final, glorious swan dive...
Another suspect side of family-values mongering: Why are so many conservatives, champions of individual freedom, so hell-bent on coercing people to march in lockstep? Why does the authoritarian impulse win out over the libertarian...