Word: helling
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Usually omitted from most staged versions of the play, but included in this production, is the central scene in which Jack dreams that he is in Hell, recast as the famous Don Juan, with Ann as Dona Ana, Ramsden as the stone statue of Ana's father, and Mendoza as the Devil himself. But this Hell is the refuge of people bored by Heaven, such as the Statue; the Devil is an amiable aesthete with a nihilistic view of man's destiny; and Don Juan himself is a man bored by the mindless hedonism of Hell and consumed with...
What remains, however, and what ties the dream back to earth is the idea of the life force which inexorably draws men to women. The life force fuels the positive evolution that allows man to reach the ultimate status of Superman. When Dona Ana concludes the Hell Scene with her cry, "Then my work is not yet done!" we know what is in store for her modern-day counterpart (and don Juan's) upon the latter's waking...
...lights mounted on the track wall remained yellow. After the race, Goodyear was furious, maintaining he slowed down because he thought the caution light was still on. Luyendyk, facing conflicting signals, simply drove on. "I just kept going," the 43-year-old Luyendyk said. "I said, 'What the hell, they better know what they're doing. I better just keep doing what I've been doing.' " Tuesday, that was enough...
...many ways the most pious and morally obsessed of nations outside the Islamic world. Recent polls suggest that 96% of Americans believe in a personal God and that 78% of them think their consciousness will survive death and go, after judgment, to heaven or hell. Its earliest colonists in the Northeast--Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers, "Pennsylvania Dutch"--were all seeking to flee European persecution and corruption (as they saw it) and trying to set up various kinds of religious Utopias. The main tool of Catholic Spain's colonization in the Southwest was the Franciscan mission. And yet the paradoxical fact...
...hypernaturalistic still life. In his work, the image of the martyred Lincoln recurs frequently, to the point of obsession, usually taking the form of a daguerreotype pinned to the board or pushed under a tape. Peto was praised for what Americans traditionally liked, skill and illusionistic power (How the hell did he do that?). But his deeper anxiety and the hints of an imperiled social order, reflected in the entropy of his objects, were lost on viewers...