Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Love My Baby," Gordon weds his singing to Spedding's hot derivative guitar licks. Derivative, hell--they were stolen. But who cares? Just listen to these lyrics...
Demonstrators chanted "Hell No, We Won't Glow," and "Nukes, Poverty, Racism, War--We won't take it any More," as they marched to Draper from Sennott Park where speakers had inveighed against nuclear weapons for nearly three hours...
...Another member, former Gary, Ind., Post-Tribune Columnist Don Ross, is now a public relations consultant in Tulsa. "I'm envious as hell of Russell's Pulitzer, which I think should have gone to a black," quips Ross...
...Hell as well as Heaven. Absent is a brooding Satan or a slick Beelzebub to direct the traffic of the damned. Elkin's Hell is an anarchic ghetto, "the ultimate inner city" in perpetual and agonizing meltdown. "Its stinking sulfurous streets were unsafe," he writes. "Pointless, profitless muggings were commonplace; joyless rape that punished its victims and offered no relief to the perpetrator. Everything was contagious, cancer as common as a cold, plague the quotidian. There was stomachache, headache, toothache, earache. There was angina and indigestion and painful third-degree burning itch. Nerves like a hideous body hair grew...
...speak these abstractions with realistic spontaneity. As for Joyce's famous epiphanies, they seem disastrously flat on the screen, at least in this adap tation. It falls to John Gielgud to deliver the most famous of them, a priest's vivid description of the torments of hell. He speaks the words well enough, his precise diction giving them something like the burning power of dry ice. But in the truncated form the screen demands, they lose much of their power. Strick helps not at all with his dismally conventional way of shooting...