Word: infernale
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Pinsky's fresh, vital language doesn't wither in the face of Dante's infernal landscapes. Take, for example, the description of the myriad souls collecting at the river Archeron:
So far, so promising. In Anne Rice's screenplay, which she adapted from her megaselling 1976 novel, Lestat and his crew are displaced aristocrats, glorious anachronisms. They are enslaved by bloodlust: every night a little death. They lean into the victims' necks and give them the hickey from hell, the...
Humans have no such advantages. In addition to slippery rocks, infernal heat and regular downpours, the region has leeches and malaria to discourage two- legged visitors. On the Vietnamese side, even native hunters rarely remain long in the forest; instead they catch game by setting snares or by using dogs...
Considering the potentially dire consequences -- economic, military and diplomatic -- of a hasty return to doing business with Iraq, the U.S. wants to err on the side of caution. That is also the position of the U.N. inspectors, who bear primary responsibility for making sure that Saddam's infernal death machine...
The thing to remember about Jordan is that above all else, he wants -- and needs -- the ball. In that 94-ft. by 50-ft. rectangle that constitutes a basketball court, there are always 10 players. All things being equal, each player would only have the ball 10% of the time...