Word: hellishness
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...deployed in mid-flight, ruling out a hypothesis popular in media coverage immediately after the Halloween night crash. The big question, of course, is what prompted the pilot, eight seconds after the autopilot disconnected, to begin what appears to have been an emergency descent that later turned into a hellish plunge at a speed greater than that which the aircraft was designed for. The flight data recovered indicates only that until then it had been an "uneventful" flight, according to NTSB chairman Jim Hall. More than anything else, the data from the first black box only emphasizes the need...
...stuff. I had been forced to fake my way through a conversation with his publicist earlier in the week. As she correctly suspected I only wanted to talk to him because he acts crazy. Which is not surprising--Willis is a clinically diagnosed schizophrenic who grew up in a hellish Chicago environment with his mother's abusive boyfriend...
...first flick, a movie entitled Bastard!! Demon-God of Destruction. (Oh, what a name.) The movie started just the way I expected-a thunderous voice informed me that I was entering a "barren, bestial environment" where humans had been conquered by superior beings and sentenced to a hellish eternity. Hmmm hellish eternity sounded like the night I saw looming ahead...
...bravado, and the audience is fooled into thinking this will be the routine buddy-cop movie with jolly, fat guy exchanging caustic one-liners with his thinner, but emotionally more substantive, partner. However, as the wheels spin out, the film takes the audience along for a more complex, hellish ride that visits death, madness, and despair on every street corner. Ving Rhames as Marcus brightens the movie with a comic volubility that the heavy film so badly needs. He is a smooth talking paramedic who has a soft spot for gin and prostitutes and a talent for preaching. Then watch...
...night streets, teeming with hookers and junkies, quickened with the threat of sudden, pointless death). There is also, of course, the same sort of harsh yet slightly fantastical realism and the same sort of antisocial protagonist, who thinks his life might be justified if he could just leave these hellish streets behind. The fact that Frank's vantage point is, like Travis Bickle's, a moving vehicle (in Frank's case, an ambulance), from which one's perspective is hasty and incomplete, is another significant parallel...