Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resort of Aspen, Colo., is getting so spoiled by runaway commercialism that Author Hunter Thompson (Hell's Angels), who calls himself "a foul-mouthed outlaw journalist," figured that a shrill anti-progress campaign might just get him elected sheriff of Pitkin County. "Sod the streets, ban autos!" he cried. "Savagely harass land rapists!" By describing the job as "main pig," the shaved-skull exponent of "freak power" put off the conservative electorate, but the ecology issue is so big in Aspen that according to unofficial tabulations, Thompson lost by only 455 votes...
Felix (George Segal) opens the door, and it seems as if hell's fire has swept through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. It is the buxom neighbor he has reported to the building superintendent for prostitution. "Hello, pansy!" shrieks Doris (Barbra Streisand). "Hello, fink! Fink pansy! You rat! You fruitcake! Rat fink fruitcake! Creeps as yourself don't have dogs named Wolf. What creeps like you have are little faggy hairy bitty things with names like Pooky and Doodoo...
...brings up all the problems of censorship-do we have the right to regulate what people see on television," Kagan said. "We are hoping that they [the station and the program's sponsors] will say, 'the hell with it' and put on another show in its place...
...Locusts" describes the Princeton commencement at which Dylan got his degree, hearing in his mind a chorus of insects warning him that he might not be doing the right thing. He obviously wondered what the hell he was doing there: "The man next to me, his head was exploding/ I was hoping the pieces wouldn't fall down...
...Llewelyn, who somehow equates his abuse of alcohol with a magician's misuse of his powers, Gabriola beckons like a nondenominational land of the dead. Like Hades, it is a waiting room for both heaven and hell-a nice quiet place with no scheduled activities...