Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McMartin plays this role to droll perfection, both physically and psychologically. His face and his body operate on alternating currents as he is by turns appalled, amazed and fascinated by Don Juan's behavior. As the Don, Paul Hecht is the compleat cynic and as seductive as the hell he courts...
...even that Osborne speciality, the long brilliant speech-all gone. Instead, we have half a dozen players on a sparse stage, and a "chairman," who opens the proceedings with a discussion of the printed program. Be fore long, the characters are asking each other, and the audience, what the hell they're doing there. A beer-swilling football fan issues periodic razzberries from the balcony, while from a front-row seat in the stalls an exasperated Establishment chap complains loudly about the dearth of any sense or decent language from the stage...
...Post's observations of the bush country. He knows the intricate workings of a Matabele law court and the curious fact that baboons teach their young to count aloud to the number three (but not beyond, because to baboons all numbers higher than three are simply "a hell of a lot"). Van der Post is right: the reader finds with great pleasure that such knowledge does thaw the civilized imagination...
...Brad VanPelt, Michigan State, 6 ft. 5 in., 221 lbs. The line on Bryant is "powerful, sharp pursuit, a mean cookie." "He can spot a runner five steps," says one scout, and then he will "not only catch him but pound the hell out of him." Versatile is the word for VanPelt. A seven-letter man in three sports, he is tall and tough enough to also be considered as linebacker. Says one scout: "For a big guy he can fly. He's always in the right place, sometimes making half the tackles for State...
...bread and water. If they were put on today's bread and water, they would die. Then all those people who don't believe in capital punishment but who have been feeding their children this very kind of bread for years and years would raise holy hell...