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Word: hellings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman or child who watches him on the screen for one performance than all the nudothespians of Hair, Che! and Oh! Calcutta! combined could produce on stage if they were to do their thing from now until the year 2010, when they reach the Grand Duke's age. Hell, they can't even compete with the fig leaf on TIME'S cover, which has more zip, unzippered, than either of the two characters posing behind it. By the way, which one is the good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 25, 1969 | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...heat of the San Joaquin Valley during grape-picking time must surely rival hell in its intensity. I lasted less than one day picking, or more accurately "cutting" grapes; and I can testify that picking cotton is fun compared to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 18, 1969 | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...federal grant of $173,760 to promote development of Negro-owned building-contracting firms. Wilkins pointed out that the N.A.A.C.P. has supplied legal aid to the very campus radicals who charge that the association has lost touch. Said Wilkins: "When they're in trouble, who in hell comes to their rescue but the good old N.A.A.C.P.?" Convention resolutions backed such traditional goals as a higher minimum wage, extension of the antipoverty program and stronger antidiscrimination laws. They also paid lip service to black power by backing community control of schools and cooperation with other black organizations, such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Color Them Traditional | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...terrain. Though the siege last week was lifted and Ben Het remained in allied hands, the results were far from reassuring. "You can see it happening all the way to the beaches," said one U.S. general. "As we move back, they will inch right in behind us and smack hell out of whatever ARVN unit we leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Lesson of Ben Het | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...performed at its world premiere by the venturesome Hamburg State Opera, the three-act music-drama is a lurid vision of hell on earth. Horror builds to a crescendo as sacral scenes of church and cloister are followed by wild orgies of the possessed nuns and a ludicrous exorcising ceremony in which the crazed sisters howl, shriek and twitch like wolverines in heat. Present in nearly every scene is a revulsive chorus of guttersnipes, beggars, epileptics and whores who leap and leer with a demonic joy reminiscent of Hieronymous Bosch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: The Devil and Penderecki | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

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