Word: hellishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eleven hours one day, the President-elect had eight back-to-back meetings with congressional committees and caucuses. "I need your help," he pleaded. "Don't leave me standing alone." Duarte, the first freely elected President in half a century, means to lead a country enduring a hellish civil war, where the ruling class has been particularly resistant to social reform. By trying to reform and perhaps even redeem El Salvador, he told one group, "I'm putting my life on the line." In 1972 he was imprisoned and beaten by the army he will now lead. Democratic...
...wasn't as easy as it sounds. The 2000-meter Charles River races Saturday started out hellish and got better, but only by comparison, with gale-force winds and choppy water proving a test more of strength than of technique...
Kozintsev's version finds a credible and effective medium between the two choices. Against the hellish background of a black and smoldering castle, the camera shows Lear's death and then curiously turns towards the open gateway of the castle, giving a view of the white-capped water over which a few seagulls lazily fly. It is as if the camera were following the heavenly acensions of Lear's and Cordelia's souls, the only characters to whom redemption is finally offered...
...Hollywood's hottest movies for summer '84 is Walter Hill's Streets of Fire, with a title rerouted from Bruce Springsteen, a score featuring songs by the Blasters and Tom Petty, and some costumes designed by Giorgio Armani, all helping to spin out a hellish story set in the future imperfect. Even sooner, viewers can sample a fine, tough, sexy new movie called Reckless, with tunes by Romeo Void and Bob Seeger; a fake documentary called This Is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner, which chronicles with legitimate hilarity the American tour of the world...
Funds at both federal and state levels have been declining for work in the child-abuse field even as the affliction appears to be getting worse. Private contributions have not closed the gap. Beyond the immediate practical needs to protect young victims and give them counseling and therapy after hellish experiences, research into longer-term solutions is suffering. "You cannot wait to help a child in trouble," warns Roy T. Bowles, a lecturer in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. "We must not allow the complexity of this problem to paralyze...