Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book, published in 1956, was mean as "a sober assessment of small boy when left alone," according to its author. Although he said in such an allegory "all hell will break loose with no constraints," Golding remarked that a reader's mood at the end of Lord of the Film should be "sober, thoughtful, on the whole optimistic...
...Exit. A competent cinemadaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's celebrated attempt to demonstrate the existentialist tenet that hell is other people...
...practice, Celtics run, run, run-there are no exceptions. "I have a 25? fine for every minute a guy's late," says Auerbach. "If Russell comes in at 10:05 it costs him $1.25. I'd rather fine the big guys. Hell, anybody can fine a rookie." But Auerbach does not treat his giants like children. He rarely invokes a curfew, lets them enjoy a beer or two after the game. Whether his high-priced players are "happy" does not interest Auerbach. "It's up to them to make me happy," he snorts. "I tell them they...
This should be the most horrible book ever written. Actually, thanks to Wylie's jaunty, business-as-usual prose, the effect is quite different. As long as there is a novelist with the old know-how, all is not lost. The reader of this Tom-Swift-in-Hell story has the choice of a dozen characters with whom it should be a privilege to identify. There is this tycoon, an old Walter Huston type, rich enough to dig a two or three hundred million dollar fur-lined funk hole under his Connecticut Shangrila. There is his nice ginny wife...
...coach rate for the Chicago-Los Angeles run, forcing his competitors-American Airlines. United Air Lines and TWA-to follow suit, traffic rose 30%. "There's always a big group of people who want to get there the cheapest way,'' says American President C. R. Smith. "Hell, they'd be willing to stand up all the way to California." They will not have to stand, but lower fares will mean the end of beverage and food service in coach class and less elaborate meals and tighter seating (five abreast v. present four) in first class...