Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sell America Fascism over the Italian radio. His daughter sees him most clearly not as the artist or the political man, but as a sage so heroically proportioned that he could deal on an immediate personal level with anyone. He was able to order his life consciously, despite the anguish he suffered from loving two women at once, and despite his incarceration as a traitor in his homeland...
...gray lady who appears now and then in the chapel, a pair of 15th century noblemen damned to play dice forever in the castle tower, someone who used to whip bedclothes off sleepers, and a woman without a tongue who runs across the park every night pointing in dumb anguish to her wounded mouth...
...been a time of trauma for the pets of France. Left behind by vacationing owners who believe that animals, like some good wines, do not travel well, they have languished in crowded kennels, often going on hunger strikes or catching troublesome diseases. For many French pets, those weeks of anguish are now a thing of the past. For about $3 per day, a new pet vacation club will find a pet-loving, nonvacationing family that will take in a cat or a dog-or even a parakeet or snake-during the owner's absence...
...only feels; he remembers (his Midwest childhood) and he fantasies (playing a hand of cards with Jesus Christ). After months of mute anguish, Joe is assigned a pretty young nurse who takes pity on him and even makes love to him. Joe eventually hits on the notion of communicating by tapping out Morse code with his head against the pillow...
Dame Margot still conveys expressive wonders with her exquisite arms, but she clearly is out of step with the acrobatic Cranko style, and her miming of anguish and passion looks rather like a put-on. Poème, in short, is less a tribute to her glamour than an unintentionally cruel exploitation of her age and fading skills...