Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the pavement on the road to hell, this film has been made with good intentions. Joseph E. Levine wanted to get completely out of his Hercules rut. Carol Baker tried to sew up her reputation as America's hottest sex symbol. And Hollywood felt ready to display its new maturity and discuss Adult Problems...
...independence in which, says Bennington Dean Harry Pearson, the girls "take great pleasure in tweaking the noses of the middle classes." To celebrate the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante (see BOOKS) this spring, the girls donned costumes and reconstructed the campus according to the Divine Comedy-Hell was the college dump, Heaven a hilltop garden. Men at nearby colleges are prone to gossip about Bennington students as "rather bohemian girls of a sexually compliant nature," which sometimes leads the girls to answer requests for dates with an icy "I have a paper...
...command rang out at 3 p.m., and for one long moment last week, all the klaxons of hell seemed concentrated at Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne Mountains of France. Electric starters whined. Engines coughed, belched smoke, bellowed and shrieked defiance at the wind. Yelling officials rushed wildly about, collaring reluctant mechanics and dragging them to the safety of the pits. The Tricolor flag fell. Gears crashed, tires squealed, and to a roar from 50,000 spectators, 17 Formula 1 racing cars hurtled off the starting grid for lap 1 of the French Grand Prix-oldest auto race in the world...
...portent was fulfilled in a blaze of genius for which the bird of the sun is no intemperate metaphor. For seven centuries La Commedia, which in 14,233 lines of lordly language describes the poet's descent into hell and ascent into heaven through the refining fires of purgatory, has been widely considered the greatest poem ever composed; and its author has been virtually deified by the critics. T. S. Eliot pronounced him "the most universal of poets in the modern languages," and added: "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion; Dante the greatest altitude and greatest depth...
...lnferno, the most exciting of the canticles, reads like a scenario for the ultimate horror movie. Hell, as Dante conceives it, is formed in the shape of a funnel. Terraces circle its inner surfaces in a descending series of damnations. In the first circle, the innocent shades of pre-Christian times exist in peace. In the next four, the souls of the incontinent are tormented. Heresy, violence and fraud have their reward in the sixth, seventh and eighth circles, and traitors fill the bottom of the pit-a region not of everlasting fire but of eternal...