Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...belies our ideal of painstaking procedural due process. Perhaps Richard Nixon put it best when he remarked in one of the Watergate tapes. "I don't know whether [lie-detector tests] are accurate or not, but it doesn't make any difference. Test them all. It'll scare the hell out of them...
...superpowers to help avert a crisis over the missile deployment. The latest Soviet moves appeared to signal an increased willingness in Moscow to push its war of nerves with Washington over the missiles to the crisis point. Said a West European diplomat: "The Soviets are trying to scare the hell out of everyone...
...family trying to survive a nuclear blast. One of the hottest commercial novels due next spring is Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, which shows America reeling from atomic desolation and California, intact and safe, effectively closed to the rest of the country. "There's a hell of a percentage increase in these day-after-nuclear scripts," says Michael Fuchs, president of Home Box Office's entertainment group. Apocalypse has clearly become something more than the fate that looms just over the horizon line. It may be the growth industry...
...Rossi) may have a streak of envy that festers into malice, but he is portrayed sympathetically as a man incapable of understanding that his no-nonsense housewife could beat him at a man's game. Connie Kalitta, Shirley's lover once she hits the circuit, is a hell-raising womanizer, but in Beau Bridges' engaging performance one can see Connie as an endangered species in a game that TV is trying to streamline into respectability. "This used to be a rowdy sport," Connie recalls. "Now they want to make us into damn ... golf...
After a year her she says she feels increasingly tied to Poland. She particularly remembers her original perceptions of this country. "My first impression was really interesting because we landed in New York. After Warsaw and martial law, it was like hell and paradise. Under martial law people are so sad. Everything looked grey and sad," she says...