Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program. Last week he called on shoppers to boycott retailers who could not explain stiff price increases. He also reported that so far 207 of the 500 largest corporations have agreed to go along with the price guidelines. None of the others, he announced, had as yet said, "To hell with...
...fossil who had long since slipped out of the mainstream of physics. Indeed, his greatest work, general relativity, fell into an intellectual limbo. Explains University of Texas Physicist John Wheeler: "For the first half-century of its life, general relativity was a theorist's paradise but an experimentalist's hell. No theory was more difficult to test." Physicists turned to other concepts, mostly concerning atomic structure, that could be more easily verified and had more applications...
...Hell is the static lifelessness of unrelieved viciousness, Paradise the static lifelessness of unrelieved immaculation, Purgatory a flood of movement and vitality released by the conjunction of the elements." -Beckett on Joyce...
...irreducible absurdity-one in which the realms of the shadow and substance constantly collide,interweave and fall apart. In this world characters are racked by doubt and tormented by a nightmarish past which they cannot escape or hope to understand. Purgatory is not a way-station between heaven and hell in Kim's view, it is the Universe itself, driven by doubt and unfulfilled thought...
...once left him and his anguish increase as he mentally reenacts past relationships with his mother and a discarded Ophelia-both of whom he destroyed through neglect. The camera repeatedly closes in on Joe's face as the girl's taunts become increasingly strident, "You know that penny farthing hell you call your mind...that's where you think this is coming from don't you...behind the eyes." We expect some kind of catharsis and yet Kim gives us none save two tears which slowly roll down Joe's face...