Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE is John Osborne's Inferno, the journey of an "irredeemably mediocre" middle-aged soul through a modern hell. This anti-hero lashes out at his fate with visceral scorn and waspish humor. Nicol Williamson makes him a good sight larger than most heroes...
...drivers are mostly private contractors, some of them whites. Though the government calls the oil run "Operation Octane," the brawny truckers know it as "the hell run." Attracted by Zambian government offers of up to $450 per trip, they travel night and day, seldom stopping to sleep. They fortify themselves against danger with python-skin juju charms, but their defense against the heat is more practical: bags of water laced with...
...after the race the stewards suspended him for being "inept." Vowing "Some day I win the Kentucky Derby" Braulio took to haunting movie houses that showed newsreels of U.S. races ("Eddie Arcaro always won. He was a beautiful hand rider"), worked hard to earn his spurs in the hell-for-leather scrambles that are typical of racing in Panama. Between 1956 and 1960 he won 912 races-about one-third of all the races in the country. Then, in February of 1960, on a visit to Hialeah, he ran into Chuck Parke, trainer of a string of thoroughbreds owned...
...very careful with stairs," the duchess explained gently. "Oh hell," said the Duke of Windsor, 71, spryly negotiating the two flights down to the projection hall of Paris' Marbeuf cinema. Then the duke settled down with the duchess to stare raptly at a grainy, long-ago history called A King's Story, a documentary telling how Britain's Edward VIII gave up the throne in 1936 to marry "the woman...
...station is also big on self-promotion, recently ran an "I Don't Want to Go to Los Angeles" contest (first prize: a chance not to go to L.A.; second prize: a free trip to L.A.). Says Program Director Al Newman: "We have an informal, go-to-hell image." Cost of a one-minute prime-time spot...