Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britain's Robert Maxwell took over Macmillan publishers; Japan's Sony acquired CBS Records; and Australian-born Murdoch (now a U.S. citizen) accumulated newspapers, magazines, a movie studio and a TV network. Said Time's Munro: "We see Maxwell, Murdoch, Bertelsmann and Sony coming into our market and raising hell, and we see this ((merger)) as an opportunity for an American company to get competitive." In fact, Time Warner would vault ahead of the competition. Bertelsmann, whose annual revenues are nearly $7 billion, would fall to the No. 2 spot among the world's media companies...
...David, I don't know what the hell I'm doing...
...punished, and double beds were for sinners in New York City. In Hollywood movies, even happily married couples, like Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man series, slept in widely separated twin beds, clad top to bottom in pajamas or nightgown. Such now innocuous four-letter words as hell and damn were proscribed, and Gone With the Wind titillated and sometimes shocked audiences with Clark Gable's final words to Leigh: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn...
...Return From Hell shows tonight at 7:00 p.m. and features a marital triangle disrupted by World War I. Two rivals must switch from hatred to cooperation if they are to survive...
...last casualty of the Reagan Revolution is, I fear, Mother Jones magazine, a long-time soap box for leftists and unabashed bleeding heart liberals. Named for Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, an early 20th century labor organizer and self-described hell-raiser, the magazine is perhaps best known to Harvard students as the source of the "combusting Pintos" article in the Ec 10 readings book...