Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That's right! That's why they'll never look there. We hand out crack with welfare payments. Hell, instead of welfare! Pocket the checks. The President doesn't have to know. We'll make millions! It's a gold mine. Are you on board...
...pedantic warning to the Third Empire, The Romans of the Decadence, ancestor of all Cecil B. DeMille orgies. In the distance, on a raised loft that stood where the trains once came in and out, was a grimy white gleam: the spectral plaster of Rodin's Gates of Hell. In a side gallery, a visitor furtively ran his finger over the marble nipple of a luscious demimondaine writhing naked among stone roses, once the sensation of the salon of 1847, whose model had been apostrophized by Baudelaire...
...capital's top lawyers watched the NSC's newly resigned Vice Admiral John Poindexter depart and mused aloud, "If I were a young lawyer in this city, I'd get hold of Oliver North right now and sign him up. I know him, and he's a hell of a guy. If they hold hearings on him, he'll be a national hero. There will be a book and then a movie, and he'll get just about any price he wants on the lecture circuit...
...extremes of experience that real life simply cannot produce. The power of theater is to bring these artistic highs and lows and the audience together, to make them real to each other if only for an evening. In order to survive, in order to continue to provide one hell of a night out, theater has to live and breathe, to laugh and groan and sweat right onto the people in the front row. At that range, the effect is unforgettable...
Having expected the shooting to "be seven weeks of hell," Mailer has, to his surprise, enjoyed it (and anticipates finishing it on schedule next month). "I like working with actors." And vice versa. "I think he wrote the part with me in mind," says O'Neal, who remembers boxing occasionally with his current boss. Now "he beats me up a lot worse than he ever did in the gym." Mailer is frankly hoping for a box-office success so that he can direct again. "I think I needed a vacation from writing," he observes. "Oddly enough, directing a film, because...