Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rather special segment of mankind occupies Kingsley's boozy, smoke-hazy, symbolic inferno, a red-velours-lined Manhattan key club. But essentially the members of this eclectic hell divide be tween the damned and the dim. The damned shine phosphorescently. The dim give off flickers of goodness. Among the damned: an ambisextrous movie queen (Salome Jens), a thuggish labor czar (Neville Brand). Among the dim: a songstress with maternal yearnings (Carol Lawrence), a lawyer with a festering case of Korean combat fatigue (Jack Kelly), an aging poet-turned-furniture-dealer (Walter Abel) and his wife (Carmen Mathews...
Dante's Inferno. For all its opulence and glamour, life in the big city is still a country mile from utopia. Rents are astronomical, and in New York, garaging a car can cost as much as $95 a month, without service. New York's subway system, which carries 4,600,000 passengers a day, often resembles something straight out of Dante's Inferno. A snowstorm that could be ignored or scoffed at elsewhere can paralyze a big city for days. Smog often covers Los Angeles, Chicago has its biting wind, and New York is covered...
...John Mills's portrayal of Lawrence, the play carries one along with its promise of some ultimate disclosure of character. The central illusion holds: this could be Lawrence, this could be the Arabian desert. The high-noon blaze of Motley's desert scenes evokes a sandy inferno stretching to infinity, a landscape without perspective in which a man might take himself for a god. By contrast, the R.A.F. barracks are squatty, cramped, mind-dwarfing. But at play's end, this portrait of a hero turns out to have been persistently tantalizing as drama, never entirely convincing...
Last week, seconds after its engines spouted orange flame, a Minuteman rose out of the inferno of its underground "silo" at Cape Canaveral, passed through the preceding smoke ring caused by the shock waves of its blast, and roared out into the South Atlantic on a test run that was considered perfect...
Dirge. Heavy street fighting turned Elisabethville into a shell-pocked inferno, and there was serious doubt that the U.N. could avoid being overwhelmed. Tshombe, after 'a day of hiding, turned up in his heavily guarded residence to direct the battle. Said he: "I am prepared to die fighting in my own home." The tree-lined avenues were littered with the shells of Jeeps and the bodies of men; water and power were cut off, food was running low (and food markets closed), and there was growing danger of disease. Few people ventured out of doors, and many slept...