Word: helling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student left a "Heaven and Hell" party around 1 a.m. on Sunday morning, a dart board of unknown origin fell from a fifth-floor window and hit a Harvard student in the head as she stood outside of Eliot House's Centry...
...capacity for insult, denigration and blasphemy seems utterly boundless. University of Tennessee research associate professor Jonathan E. Lighter demonstrated this in 1994 with the first volume of his Historical Dictionary of American Slang (A through G). Volume II (Random House; 736 pages; $65)--beginning with H, a euphemism for hell, and ending 10,000 definitions later at the letter O with Ozzie, an Australian--once again reflects Americans' ingenious talent for verbal invention as well as Lighter's indefatigable scholarship...
Which is, in fact, exactly what he did. Timequake was scheduled for publication some years ago, but Vonnegut pulled the plug just before the book went to press. His reason, as he explained at the Brattle Theatre Tuesday night, was that he "didn't know what the hell it was about." Suddenly one book short of a three-book contract, Vonnegut spent the next few years overhauling the novel, drastically paring down the original "temporal anomaly" plot and filling the void with personal remembrances and ruminations...
...body of work that spans three decades and eighteen books, all of them still in print. He notes that, unlike the many writers of his generation, he has lived to a ripe old age. "I got to look back," he crowed at the Brattle, "And I feel lucky as hell." In the course of "looking back" through the lens of Timequake, he covers a lot of familiar ground: his trademark anti-nuclear sentiments are very much in evidence, especially at the beginning of the book, and he spends a good deal of time on World War II and the death...
...having just driven 20 hours from Atlanta to Manhattan at the time of the interview. The band played a show at the Orpheum Theater on Sept. 22, which Cole described as "excellent-the crowd was really enthusiastic, and we love Boston. Jimbo blew a whole month's worth of 'hell money' in one night there...