Word: helling
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Director of WANTED to produce MOBY DICK: "From Hell's heart, I shoot at thee with slow-motion bullets...
...ended up having to use two months later. And when the three have run into interference from conservatives in the White House who didn't much care for their intervention in free markets--including, at times, aides in the Vice President's office--President Bush has told them, To hell with the flak--just get it done...
...debate sharpens in the U.S. Congress over Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's proposed $700 billion bailout package, Washington policymakers would be wise to lift their gaze beyond the Beltway and take a look at Sweden. That country has already been in this particular policy hell, during a banking crisis of its own in the early 1990s. "The basic conditions are the same," says Bo Lundgren, Sweden's Finance Minister at the time. "There was the same anxiety and the same need for confidence." He's one of a number of Swedish financial types who have been shuttling...
...Reunion, in a sea of people who you don’t remember to have been very accepting to begin with, and the appeal of such an event is lost on LGBT alumni. I come back every five years anyway but, frankly, often wonder while in Cambridge why the hell I did this to myself...
...Infinite Jest Wallace wrote--in a passage that now reads like a lucid cell-phone call from the pilot of a crashing 747--that clinical depression is "lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... Everything is part of the problem, and there is no solution. It is a hell for one." What Wallace suffered was both agonizing and indescribable, even by him. And that last may have been what made it unbearable. Like Hamlet--who gave Infinite Jest its title--he had that within which passeth show. Even if he could have written on and on, an infinite number...