Word: helling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...former director can be expected to elaborate on an interview he gave the New York Times two days after he quit, in which he blamed Louisiana state officials but also made it clear that the administration responded sluggishly after he told top officials that "things were going to Hell in a handbasket" in Louisiana. David Marin, the select committee's staff director, said members will begin with "the most obvious" questions, including: "Looking back now, what would you do differently? Given the amount of planning in place, what on earth went wrong...
...could have stopped them, but they came up with some big conversions. They’re a hell of a football team,” Holy Cross head coach Tom Gilmore said. “I think there’s plenty of blame to go around on our team...
...Mike’s descent toward the inferno at the bottom of Manhattan is reminiscent of Dante’s journey to the depths of Hell in “The Divine Comedy.” Mike is separated from his girlfriend Jane during the chaotic hours after the attacks, evoking memories of the pair of lovers in Dante’s epic – Francesca and Paulo – who are tossed around by the “stormy blast of Hell.” McDonell’s image of a turban-wearing taxi driver...
...Mike sees a headline about a rabbi and Mayor Giuliani on a tabloid cover – perhaps a reference to the fact that illegitimate priests and corrupt politicians both reside in the same ring of Dante’s Hell. The office-workers who jumped from the burning towers would fit into Dante’s Wood of Suicides. And Mike – who becomes a liar when he claims that “I lost my family in the attack on New York City” – is himself a falsifier, condemned to Dante?...
...modern-day gentrifiers. "Police! Police! Open up," one officer yelled as another stood nervously in the street, holding his gun at the ready. They busted in the door on several clapboard homes after smelling something foul, fearing that bodies were inside. "One lady told us to go to hell," says Staff Sergeant Vincent Rodney of the Oklahoma National Guard, "but they're all gonna have to leave...