Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope that the university will provide a pastoral, protective, quiet educational retreat for their offspring before the latter meet the cruel, cold world," he told the faculty recently, "but the present university-student generation does not look to me like a generation of lost and bewildered sheep; they seem hell-bent to take on not only the complexities of the university but also of the universe." The dissident students, he contends, "are not really running away from us. They are not proposing to expel the faculty. It is rather that they want the faculty to converse more with them about...
...stood shivering in his thatched hut. Then, girding his loincloth, he swung wildly at a mosquito (thus marring his body makeup) and grumbled: "I took this job on to find out if the movie people really had fun. Now that I know, I'm getting the hell...
...Bond would have known what to do with a blonde on a moonlit night on a tropical river. Tarzan just cuddles up to his monkey." Murray, who plays a riverboat captain, also feels miscast in this, his first big Hollywood role. "I don't know what the hell I'm doing here," he moans. "I have to take a tranquilizer even to feed my goldfish, and in this movie I've got to act with a lion, two monkeys and a snake. I'm firing my agent just as soon...
...extraneous injection of vitality is supplied by Greek actor Titos Vandis who comes on in Act II as an Onassis-like character and changes with delightful inconsistency into Zorba the Greek. The lust for lust is a trifle self-conscious in a big, scurrying Herbert Ross dance (At the Hell-rakers') in which girls are hustled across the stage like silhouettes in a military class for aircraft recognition. Robert Lewis has directed the entire enterprise as if he were killing time, which in the case of Clear Day is redundant...
...lazy to learn their language and customs, the Communists are plotting a fraudulent invasion of the tiny kingdom so that the U.S. will rush its elephantine army into the dense bamboo. Naturally, the plot succeeds. The strained Lederer-Burdick point is: the U.S. elephant had better get the hell out before the Asian ants nibble it to pieces...