Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington remains fearful that, at some point, the poor will really get out of hand. Abernathy did nothing to ease those fears when he told a campsite crowd: "We're going to raise hell downtown." In a more elegant setting, he told a group of business executives in the ballroom of Washington's Shoreham Hotel essentially the same thing: "It is suicidal for any nation to develop a people who do not feel they have a stake in that society. In due course that people will rise up and destroy that nation, even though they may destroy themselves...
...week, they finally arrived within shelling distance of their target. Setting up headquarters with his 105-mm.-howitzer battery in a suburban Anglican churchyard, Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, head of Nigeria's 3rd Marine Commando Division ("The Scorpions"), took full charge of the attack, code-naming his immediate area "Hell Sector," the Port Harcourt airport "Iron Sector" and the main area of town "Hate Sector." As federal howitzer, mortar and artillery shells began pounding the fringes of the city at three-minute intervals, young Ibo tribesmen dressed in clean white shirts and ties slapped "Anti-Panic Squad" signs on their...
...town of Exeter is the kind of small New Hampshire commercial nothing that was filmed so often in the McCarthy primary. The townies are hostile to the studies (pronounced stoodees). A motorcycleless motorcycle gang called the Hell's Avengers periodically beats up an academy student...
...hours spent listening to the Council represent only one of the many headaches which Rudolph must endure to earn his $16,000 yearly salary. If the street patterns of Cambridge were planned at all, they were planned by a disciple of Jonathan Edwards bent on bequeathing a tangled hell to latter-day Cantabrigians. The streets are often narrow, and they careen into each other at odd angles, forming the squares which dot the map, and clog the traffic. Besides residents and students, floods of commuters from neighboring cities--such as Somerville and Watertown--use the streets on their...
Chabrol's self-centered trio (Perkins, his wife Furneaux and friend Ronet), we watch spellbound as Chabrol brings us further into an impeccably decorated, completely corrupt world of malevolence. The final images, shocking and indescribable, are unlike any other in narrative cinema and, if nothing else, suggest an existential hell as beautiful and provocative as we are likely to see for some time...