Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Telltale signs of a prank include Lucifer Associates' address at 66 Madison Ave., a nonexistent phone number and an office in Dis, a level of hell in Dante's Inferno. The Office of Career Services (OCS) does not list the company as an on-campus recruiter...
Elise could radiate; Winfrey had to seethe. "On the surface," Demme notes, "Sethe is stoic, immovable, but inside she's an inferno of emotions. Oprah had to find the exact way to communicate both of these things, and it was great theater every day watching her do it. There were times when Oprah the person would be so overwhelmed with compassion and empathy for Sethe the character that her emotions would take her far away from where Sethe needed to be. As Toni Morrison told me, 'Remember, Jonathan, Oprah cries. Sethe doesn...
...inspired tens of thousands of young Jews from Palestine to join the British army in fighting the Nazis, but at the same time authorized an underground agency to ship Jewish refugees into the country. As the British were intercepting, deporting and locking away these survivors of the Nazi inferno in barbed-wired detention camps, world opinion grew more and more sympathetic to the Zionist prescription for the plight of the Jews. This strategy helped bring about the favorable atmosphere that led to the 1947 U.N. resolution, partitioning Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state...
...this is fuel for her new fire. Now the spotlight feels to her like an inferno, and her popularity looks like an abyss. "I traded fame for love," she laments on the CD's opening song, the gently cascading Drowned World/Substitute for Love. On the subdued Nothing Really Matters, she confesses "Looking at my life/It's very clear to me/I lived so selfishly...
...incongruously vibrant like "Yellow Mama," the electric chair in Alabama used last week for the execution of ex-Klansman Henry Hays. Or death can have the rustic decrepitude of the gallows in Delaware, which remains in operation. But on every chamber hang the words inscribed in Dante's Inferno: "Abandon all hope you who enter here...