Word: infernos
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...same guy who had travelled with my Mets into the way-below-1500 doldrums of the NL East, like Dante into the depths of the Inferno, was actually managing a division-leading ball club. He must have endured purgatory some time during the offseason. I thought to myself...
...heavily guarded Ilopango military airport. They placed explosive charges around some of the country's fleet of venerable fighter aircraft and 14 U.S.-built UH-1H "Huey" helicopters and then escaped undetected. At 1:30 a.m., the bombs went off and parts of the airport became an inferno...
...because Venus is such an inferno, the heavenly goddess has held a special fascination for scientists. Why, they wonder, has a planet so close to earth and so like it in size and density evolved into a world so vastly different and hostile? Last week at a conference sponsored by NASA'S Ames Research Center, they provided new insights into Venus-and some warnings about the earth's own future...
...turned to straight acting and won an Oscar nomination (his first) for his performance in The Towering Inferno. And last year he took a wife: Pioneer Jockey Robyn Smith...
...read as clearly as a Renaissance fresco or a medieval Last Judgment. It is less about divine doom than the condition of secular despair, mauvaise foi, the unrooting of the self-a vast and almost illegibly complex dirge that touches now and then on the original imagery of the Inferno but does not, in any strict sense, illustrate it. Yet its formal properties-the sudden shifts of scale, the aggressive protrusions of figures from the bronze skin, the sense of strain and rupture-speak more eloquently of dislocation and frustration than any orthodox treatment could have hoped...