Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less magical view of New York. For one thing, most are taking in the city from the scruffy perspective of Madison Square Garden's environs, and the first impression will not be good. It is a mean and somewhat scrofulous West Side neighborhood, not far from the old Hell's Kitchen. Skells, panhandlers and a brigade of whores are working the streets, trying to avoid the 1,200 uniformed cops and 250 undercover men and women. The marquees of the porn theaters to the north are alight with titles like China Lust and Headmaster: There's Pleasure...
...glad you put that question mark after the headline "Booze for Alcoholics?" [June 21]. What Rand scientists say may be possible, but for hundreds of alcoholics it is risky as all hell...
...larger amounts of pesticides each year at greater cost to achieve a degree of control. Says he: "You can't beat insects with insecticides, and we are only fooling ourselves if we think we can. They are too adaptable. They have tremendous genetic plasticity. They are prolific as hell and they are mobile. They can move if they have...
...nostalgic quality-and part economic. To convert a leather factory to handsome apartments in Peabody, Mass., cost $16 per square foot. "By contrast," says William Wheaton, an urban economist at M.I.T., "you cannot build any new housing for less than $22 a square foot, and it looks like hell when it is built." To make conversion even more attractive, the Federal Government will help pay for such projects...
...only twelve when his father Frederick, Prince of Wales, died in 1751 from internal injuries caused by a blow from a cricket ball. A scheming, irascible man, Frederick was totally alienated from his own parents, George II and Queen Caroline ("If I was to see him in hell," Caroline said of her son, "I should feel no more for him than I should for any other rogue that ever went there"). He saw little more of young George, who never speaks of him even...