Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miss Murphy does have one marvelous piece of business in her "unsex me here" soliloquy. When she summons "thick night" and the "smoke of hell," she grabs the pointed crucifix hanging around her neck and spits on it. At the words "my keen knife" she inverts the cross, turning it into a lethal dagger. This is an electrifying moment, altogether fitting for a play in which "fair is foul" and everything is topsy-turvy...
...tiny bouquet, however, for one line-reading. When Macbeth starts up the stairs to kill the king, and a bell rings, almost all editions have him say, "Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell/That summons thee to heaven, or to hell." Weaver says, "me to hell." This is an emendation I have always found rather appealing. Aside from the internal rhyme of the contrasting pronouns, it implies that the saintly king will surely achieve salvation and that Macbeth fully realizes the enormity of what he is about to do. It was a pleasure to hear this reading used...
...Thompson's career, he shifted to this style in the middle sixties when prompted to cover the activities of the Hell's Angels in California. He sought an antidote to the sensationalism and misrepresentation they were receiving at the hands of the press. While maintaining a reporter's role, he rode with the motorcycle gang, getting full exposure to the broken home life, intense love of fast choppers, wild orgies and drunken brawls, even suffering a brutal stomping at the end of his relationship with them. Although the means tended toward violence, the end result of this gonzo journalistic venture...
...cent Puerto Rican district, you got to realize that. The Puerto Ricans they tell me, "look we'll vote for you, but we sure as hell won't vote for your brother Biaggi'. I've got to go with one of them for Mayor, Herman has always been fair to me and there is every reason in the world to back...
...like to have our policemen be like trees and only be there when the students need them." Hall says. "Hell, I don't care what the students do. If they want to smoke dope or something I just want them to be able to do it without some guy coming to their door with...