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The 10th Circle of Hell: Bathing Suit Shopping

August 1, 2019 By Gabriel Siwady '19

“With spring break right around the corner and, dare we say it, summer on its way, the day of reckoning is inching dangerously closer.

“We all know the horror, the shame. Our heads are bowed, shoulders sagging, arms hanging limply at our sides as we enter the store. Walls of brightly patterned spandex and neoprene tease us with possibility.  Push-up, bandeau, triangle, bikini, tankini, one-piece, board shirt, options, options, options…The 10th circle of hell.” […]    –Leslie Conway, Better After 50, March 14, 2014

Categories: Consumer Goods, Written Word
Tagged with: 2014, Circles of Hell, Fashion, Hell, Shopping, Summer, Swimsuits

Gary Larson’s The Far Side: Hell and Back

October 11, 2006 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Gary Larson’s iconic comic strip The Far Side, which ran from 1980 to 1994, frequently featured hell, devils, Satan, and various forms of infernal punishment, often in Dantean fashion. In one panel, Larson illustrates a projector slide reel of the recent vacation photos of a couple. Showing a picture of a grinning Satan with his arm around a sunglasses-and-beachwear-clad woman standing in front of a raging fire, the man narrates, “Oh! Now this is from last summer, when Helen and I went to hell and back.”

Contributed by Dennis Looney

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 1995, America, Comics, Fire, Heat, Hell, Hell and Back, Humor, Inferno, Journalism, Journeys, Summer, Vacation

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