Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gate of Hell. A Japanese legend of quaint war and fatal lust, wrapped in a rich kimono of colors (TIME...
Prodigal gets off winging as fun-loving Micah (Edmund Purdom) and sober-minded brother Joram (John Dehner) come galloping hell-for-leather down the main street of Joppa; with true Hollywood ingenuity, they are using stirrups a good 600 years before they were invented. Despite his Old Testament beard and striped gown, Micah leaves no doubt as to his Anglo-Saxon manliness. Before a moviegoer can say popcorn, he has unhorsed a villainous overseer and released from bondage a mistreated slave; later on, he triumphs in a religious disputation with some rascally heathens by a solid right...
...fobbed off by such compliments to womanhood, retired High Court Judge N. C. Chatterjee argued that the old Hindu marriage was sacramental and therefore "sacrosanct and inviolable." Countered Nehru: "What is sacrament? Is it sacrament for man and wife to hate each other and beat each other, making life hell for each other, and continue throughout life in that condition...
...heart of a 970,000-acre oil concession, deep in the green hell of Bolivia's Gran Chaco Province. McCarthy has found a promising oil and gas field, there drilled three wells. The problem is to get the oil out. With his fresh money, McCarthy plans to build a feeder pipeline, tie in with a Bolivian pipeline recently completed to within 15 miles of his properties. Said McCarthy, as cocky as ever: "I want to speed things up down there. There's enough oil there to build bigger and better Shamrocks...
Tolstoy always roused warring feelings in Chekhov. He could wholeheartedly write, "I have never loved anyone as much as him," but the sage's moralizing struck him as twaddle. "Old men have always been prone to see the end of the world," he wrote. "The hell with the philosophy of the great of this world...