Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your story on the war is disgustingly biased. The President has done the right thing, and the rest of the world can go to hell if they don't like...
...JUAN IN HELL, by George Bernard Shaw. This is Act III of the four-act Man and Superman. It is usually left out of the play, since it has only a tenuous connection with the rest of the larger work and lasts two hours all by itself. It is a dream sequence set in hell, with four characters out of the legend made famous by Moliere and Mozart: Don Juan; Dona Ana, whose virtue he attempted to assault; the Commendatore, her father, slain by the archseducer; and the devil. In all of English drama, there is no more dazzlingly sustained...
Most major employers immediately began uncertainly assessing their programs for improving job prospects for women and minority workers lest the Government step in. Notes one high Midwestern executive: "Our firm is vulnerable-hell, everyone...
...event in this production the ghosts of Richard's victims never show up to curse him: he never delivers the speech about how no creature loves him or exhorts his men to follow him "if not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell." And though TCB does have the grace to let him reprove the deep-revolving witty Buckingham for swearing. Pacino mutters the reproof so softly that nobody can hear him. Hastings' head doesn't exactly bounce, but it doesn't exactly terrify either, and why Richard's unfortunate nephews should be so unmistakeably female is a mystery...
Simon gradually uncovers the substance of Winter Light, moving us in the same way that the film itself moves us as he completes his interpretation of the film as a heightened, penetrating version of the insight that "hell together is better than hell alone." In considering the visual impact of Winter Light, he examines the ways in which watching a film of Communion affects the viewer. This type of analysis could well have been brought to bear on Persona, a film so sophisticated that many one-time viewers found nothing but visual impact...