Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...train. Do you know what this fellow says? He says we spend most of our money on booze, foreign cars and regional stigmata. Stigmata, oh my God! He says we get drunker than anybody else. He says we keep electric wormdiggers in Hepplewhite chests. Now who the hell has ever seen a worm digger around here...
...there were some dissenting opinions. Wrote the critic of the longhair Cahiers du Cinema: "In its attempt at neorealism, Marty reveals what daily life is like for the relatively prosperous working-class American . . . I was terrified. This 'American Way of Life' seemed like a foretaste of hell...
...Louis store of the Kroger chain, eventually became chief trouble-shooter for the whole chain (3,174 stores). He quit to join National Tea because Kroger rejected his ideas for extensive reorganization on the grounds that the company was already doing well. Says McNamara: "Hell, the time to make changes is when you are doing all right-not when you're in trouble. That way you can call them improvements...
Lesser awards went to Italy's Renato Birolli, 49, for his dramatic composition of lightning in a vineyard; to Chilean-born Painter Matta, 43, for a 10-ft.-long canvas filled with bedazzling pyrotechnics that looked like a combined château and gasworks in hell the night the fireworks factory blew up; to Rome's Toti Scialoja, 41, for a low-keyed study in a lyrical cubist style. Not until the honorable mentions did the first U.S. painters appear: little-known Pittsburgh Artist Marjorie Eklind, 31, and this year's leading U.S. Prizewinner John Hultberg...
...Boil it until the flesh falls off the bones, and throw the flesh away and treasure the bones?" Primitive peoples discovered that, by devouring a dead body, they did not acquire its spirit; with that insight, as myths tell it, the original oneness of spirit and body, heaven and hell, was torn asunder. The ancient Egyptians spent half their lives preparing for the afterlife (some lucky corpses were sent to eternity in a glass shaft carved to represent the phallus of Osiris); at times it seemed as if only the grave robbers, who returned a large percentage of buried wealth...