Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...follies of the characters are now expressed in terms of the old prewar musical until finally the follies and the Follies merge into one surrealistic nightmare. The play within the play (titled "Loveland") is as depressing as anything I've seen in the recent months (and that says a hell of a lot). It is roughly a combination of No, No Nanette! and Satyricon. The costumes are out-of-this-world in their vulgar beauty, to the point of becoming eerie; female chorines turn out to be men; a sprightly tap-dance number turns out to express one character...
...Congress v. Nixon" [Feb. 1]: Good grief! If TIME is telling us the truth, my worst fears have been confirmed. Your article paints the U.S. Congress as nothing but a squabbling group of selfish six-year-olds playing king-of-the-hill and to hell with the public interest...
...more courageous than anyone else. I just feel that photography is important. And I will do what is required to show what is happening. I have a sense of the ultimate-death. And sometimes I must say, "To hell with that...
...executives crowed that it was "the best price deal we ever made." David Huddie, then head of Rolls' aero-engine division, was knighted for winning such a giant export contract. "The secret," he said, "is to be like a duck-smooth and unruffled on top but paddling like hell underneath...
...understand this. As written and performed, there is more humanity and intelligence in Caine's and Sharif's characters than those who fall into the snob-trap are apt to admit. I take Clavell's work on these two characters as a good sign for commercial moviemaking. And to hell with the characters in the Gary audience who laughed when Caine's Captain died. May they greet death as gracefully. The sooner, the better...