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Word: helling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scan something called the Presidential Biblical Scoreboard, which as much as brands me antifamily and un-Christian." And he cited one other example: "It is troubling that the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, who insists that Catholicism is a 'false religion,' and that Jews are damned to go to hell, is a welcome policy adviser at the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God and the Ballot Box | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

After six years of deregulation, however, the airlines are in no mood to let the Government begin writing schedules for them again. Says Delta Spokesman Jim Ewing: "This is upsetting as hell to us." Accordingly, Delta and Eastern put aside their differences and juggled their peak-hour operations in Atlanta, where the two carriers account for 85 scheduled arrivals between 7:55 and 8:30 a.m. Delta offered to move its arrivals up, to between 7:30 and 8:15, while Eastern said it would shift its back, to between 8:25 and 8:55. As the meetings proceeded through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unsnarling the Crowded Skies | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Actors love to appear in this kind of play, whether it is a tattered valentine to eccentricity like The Time of Your Life or a dopers' tone poem like The Connection or this dated, indifferent travelogue through the seventh circle of hell. An actor can both inhabit his character and stand outside it, flashing signals to the audience that say, "I'm not really this lowlife, but it's fun to pretend." Perhaps that is why the audience at off-Broadway's spacious new Minetta Lane Theater, where Balm moved last week after a successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Strutting in the Lower Depths | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...sterling characters, but it doesn't always happen that way. And so you take them where you find them." Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry made the same point to the De Lorean jury in the words of an old lawyers' axiom: "For a plot hatched in hell, don't expect angels for witnesses." -By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles and John E. Yang/Washington

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Are Bad Guys Good Witnesses? | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...walk on the wild side, but a walking tour only; a desire to see and feel and even judge, and then leave. To stay-i.e., to be serious-is to miss the point. "A perpetual holiday," said George Bernard Shaw, "is a good working definition of hell." Getting home isn't half the fun. It's all of it. -By Charles Krauthammer

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Holiday: Living on a Return Ticket | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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