Word: helling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of Monty Python and who talk about them with such enthusiasm. "To this day, when our heads are getting a little big," Stone says, "if we go and put on an old Flying Circus or something, you just watch that and you're like, 'What the hell are we doing?'" The two take an appealingly humorous view of their success. In Hollywood, executives sometimes actually pay to be the first to hear a hot writer's ideas, and Parker and Stone joke that they're going to charge $40,000 and then just go in and improvise...
...Hell hath no fury like a guilty and vicious old feudalism dying. The conquest of legal segregation and discrimination in the South is an ugly, heroic American story that ended, officially at least, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In The Children (Random House; 783 pages; $29.95), David Halberstam takes up the narrative in early 1960, with the lunch-counter sit-ins in Greensboro, N.C., and Nashville, Tenn., that were the debut of a new civil rights generation, most of whose members were younger by five or 10 years...
Everyone around me seems to be working especially hard, reflecting on the past "week of hell" and preparing their rattled psyches for the one coming. I wonder if these people who call their lives here hell are really enjoying themselves, really appreciating their educations, really gleaning all they can from Harvard...
...When you have two groups of people who have caught so much unnecessary hell under modern conditions, they tend to be a little paranoid," West said...
...point where, except for physical differences such as location and room size, they all seem the same. I couldn't tell you a thing about Mather's social atmosphere, its arts scene or the strength of its intramural teams. But I do know it's situated "way the hell down there." Whatever house preferences we do have are based solely on physical aspects. And so, for first-years, there are really only two Houses: "River" and "Quad...