Word: hellbent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans pick up this information, and they immediately sink 14 of their own missile cruisers, slash the tires on every SAC bomber. . . The President closes down the Pentagon, furloughs the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fires the U.S. Marine Corps Band. Both sides are eyeball to eyeball, headed hellbent towards a peaceful showdown, and nobody blinks...
...glamor in the form of white tie, tails, ballroom scenes and pretty dolls will show up on a Garry Moore show or a Perry Como episode, but, by and large, whether it's new public affairs or the run-of-the-mill Hollywood vidfilm product that's hellbent for realism, TV today, for the man in work clothes and business suit, is simply an extension of what he sees, hears and participates in all day long...
...Italians, like the French, are fearfully somber about their soulless, hellbent young-who, if a succession of tedious new-and old-wave films are to be believed, are constantly chewing gum, listening to jazz, riding motor scooters and wearing sunglasses in every conceivable stage of degradation. Every now and then, Director Mauro Bolognini remembers that he is supposed to sermonize, and there follows a cancer-at-the-heart-of-society scene. The punks unbutton their shirts to the navel (male exposure is the latest thing in social cancer) and lounge around glaring at one another. Nothing happens, which...
...most remarkable families. His father was a Norwegian mining official, who raised every one of his 20 children in the sport, and skied himself until he was well past 70. Torger Tokle, Art's older brother, came to the U.S. in 1939 and gained sudden fame with a hellbent, arm-flailing style that looked atrocious but won him a flock of national meets before he was killed in Italy as a ski trooper in 1945. Kyrre Tokle, another older brother, was still jumping in informal meets in the U.S. at the age of 55. (Last week Kyrre...