Word: hellishly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fortune escapes being brutalized only because she is too far gone to recognize the hellish landscape that surrounds her. She gives chase to several louts (one hopes that feminism will not entirely eliminate the attractive male character from women's writing) and becomes disastrously entangled in Biscuit's campaign for a wedding ring...
...vignette, and character to character, but also beckons the Captain back to a dreamland inhabited by Rosie Probert, the love of his younger years. For Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard (Joanne Ray), the past lives on in the ghosts of her two late husbands, who are forced to share the hellish hygiene of their window's house and her emasculating bed. Polly Garter (Debi Neipris), the generous town whore and loving mother of countless bastards, mourns a deal lover in songs of piercing beauty, while ironically scrubbing the floor of the Welfare Hall for the Mothers' Union Social Dance. And adeptly jumping...
...judge. Uranus had bestowed on them the gift of radical vision and strong impulses to alter the status quo. On the other hand, Scorpios-ruled by Pluto and Mars-were drawn to private, clandestine lives. Like the stinging arachnid of their sign, some could be dangerous in a hellish way. Scorpio had a habit of seeking warmth in the boots of bigger men. The safariing Hemingway, a Cancer, would rarely forget to shake his out in the morning...
...Conduct Unbecoming most of the way, so does nostalgia. These are the Britons who remain romantic heroes in the memories of most middle-aged Americans. Here, they are-the stiff-upper-lipped thin red line, brave, dashing, loyal and incredibly handsome. They always saved the day at some hellish outpost of empire among tsetse flies and assagais. Watching Conduct Unbecoming is almost like seeing the ghost of Lord Kitchener trouncing Lucky...
...escape can only be found by getting in the car and driving away. They finally decide to go to Chicago ("Chi"), where Gunner has a vague offer to work for an ad-agency. "They came roaring into Chi through a night torched by the steel-mill fires, eerie and hellish," writes Wakefield. They reach a curve in the road and Sonny fumbles, realizing it is "too late, too late even to put on the brake." They head straight into a cement abutment and then smash...