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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make such a facile equation, as Beatty does, is like collapsing the seven rings of hell into one, and subjecting the child shoplifter to the same tortures as the bloodthirsty murderer. If Nixon were to play George, he wouldn't simply neglect his girlfriend, his customers, and his associates for the transient pleasure of a good lay; he would place a tape recorder under the bed, to record the groans as evidence for possible blackmail. The reality of Orange County is not simply the flashy cars, the bright lights, the shiny mirrors of George's Los Angeles...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Soggy Suds | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

...long enough been acquainted with your eminence in the belletristic sphere," Andre Malraux writes him in English. "Now we are overturned to un cover you as a painterly ace ..." This is Perelman at his best, inspired by the pompous, the fake and tawdry, and hell bent for leatherette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Idiom Savant | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...hell do you think you're kidding? Do you seriously expect your readers to believe that if there were 6 million Arabs sitting in prominent positions in politics, finance and mass communications in this country and only a handful of Jewish rug peddlers, that Presidents from Roosevelt through Ford would have been outspoken Zionists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: Cher, to Place and Show | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...SEASON IN HELL by PERCY KNAUTH 111 pages. Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sisyphus at Bay | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...account of what happened before and after that moment. It suffers slightly from overwriting. But Knauth can be forgiven his occasional excesses because he confronts accurately and candidly a highly personal sickness that is too little understood, and writes informatively about its treatment. Word for word, A Season in Hell is one of the best-and most encouraging-books on mental illness yet written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sisyphus at Bay | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

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