Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DYLAN chronicles the U.S. reading-tour years of Dylan Thomas' expiring life, when the poet was already posthumous but the hell raiser was very much alive...
...display of his own greatness, Alec Guinness conveys the special hell from which the man found no exit...
Photographer Merritt was released with the order to "walk the hell out of here"; last man to shove him along was Alabama Public Safety Director Al Lingo. When Governor George Wallace heard what had happened he told Lingo that "this sort of thing must not be allowed to happen," and he called Merritt in to shake his hand warmly. "They all expressed dismay," said Merritt, "but it seemed to me there was something insincere about it." He was right. The next day Wallace gave the newspapers his version of the incident: Merritt, the Governor claimed, had resisted the sheriff, would...
...Shaw's Hell turns out to be a very pleasant place. One would have expected him to create a pleasant Inferno, just as one would have expected him to create, in the main portion of the play, a predatory woman, a snivelling romantic who pursues her in vain and an anti-romantic iconoclast whom she finally corners...
...terminable than Shaw meant it to be. The cuts do not interfere with the basic plot or with the essence of Shaw's philosophizing. They do, however, eliminate several good lines and at least one amusing complication. Some of the missing passages would have livened up the interlude in Hell. But even a truncated Shaw is better than no Shaw at all, and Man and Superman can survive considerable deletions without losing the master's spirit or even his verbosity...