Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play boccie, an Italian game played with large balls on a lawn. "He warned me he was going to beat me, although I proceeded to leave him a good deal behind. Then he started making all kinds of fancy shots. I told the Chancellor that he played crooked as hell, to which he answered, 'Here I make the rules!'...He cautioned me not to be frivolous...
...good or phony. Says a National Council of Churches official: "One of the things every minister dreads is preaching a Mother's Day sermon. Those with courage don't." Some women would just as soon forget the whole thing. Says New Yorker Betty Carter, mother of five: "Hell, I feel like Mother India all year round. I see no point in being reminded of it once a year." Recalls Actress Florence Eldridge (Mrs. Fredric March): "When my two children were young, I had to sit at the table with a crown of flowers on Mother...
...weekday morning, a small, wiry man in a khaki shirt and faded blue jeans hurries across Los Angeles' San Vicente Boulevard, enters a grimy old commercial building, and climbs the stairs to a large studio. There, Painter Rico Lebrun finds himself in what looks like a cooled-off hell. The walls are lined with massive, tortured figures drawn on huge pieces of parchment. A decapitated man holds his head in his hands; an adjoining figure is riven from neck to thigh; a third figure turns slowly into a serpent. These, along with similar drawings on display this week...
...Dolce Vita. The road to hell in this I case is Rome's Via Veneto, and it is paved with the good intentions of a gossip reporter, who slides into corruption (he becomes a pressagent) during three screen hours divided equally between boredom and skillfully done scenes of moral decay...
...People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel, by John Cheever. Pursuing the invisible fly in the ointment of their lives, John Cheever's decent, middle-class people drop into a limbo of alcoholic oblivion, sexual promiscuity and lonely despair that very much resembles hell...