Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the crack trade is conducted in the housing projects, which have been run by a private firm since 1986, when the corrupt local authority was ousted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "Living here is hell," says Villa Griffin resident Rosie Kimble, 44. "I'm scared to go out to church at night for fear someone will break in while I'm gone. It's already happened once. With all the dopeheads around here, there's shooting almost every night. You walk out the door, they're liable to shoot you dead...
...none of it. Last February he prompted a worldwide outcry when he demanded the death of Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born, British author of The Satanic Verses, a book many regard as blasphemous to Islam. "It is incumbent on every Muslim to do everything possible to send him to hell," declared the Imam. An angry Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Iran, and many Western ambassadors were temporarily recalled from Tehran...
...Rourke maintains a tone of caustic irony. It fails to disguise a moralist concerned with a lapse of decorum and values. In a discussion of capital punishment, the condemned is told, "Try to think of something piquant to say on your way to the gas chamber. 'See you in hell, Mom,' is nice. Things like . . . 'Don't stop to mourn, organize' sound too stiff for what's basically an informal situation." It is at such times that the mask of the mockingbird slips off to reveal the owl beneath, hooting at a world he is furiously attempting to save...
However Wylie does it, his clients love the results. "The hell with publishers," says Robert K. Massie, president of the Authors Guild and a Wylie client. "Andrew isn't going to play along." While some agents swing bigger deals, Wylie has won relatively large advances for the literary writers he represents, including more than $250,000 for two books by the young novelist David Leavitt...
Though Foley is clearly a liberal, critics say his unyielding opposition to gun control is evidence that he panders to constituents. "Hell, no," argues Bill First, who was Foley's press secretary for many years. "He's progun." He is also pro-Congress, untiring in his defense of the institution and particularly the House, which he feels "is like the people, both good and bad -- just as it was intended to be." He accepts contributions from political- action committees; ranks high in honorariums received; favored the 51% pay raise for Congress, judges and top Administration officials; and can be blunt...