Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Distilled Beauty. In another scene, a bird of a girl whirls about the stage, writhes in the anguish of birth throes and then spits out the words "I hate my mother." In that moment we relearn something touching and powerful about the desperate need of the young to define themselves and to cut the anchor chains of family if they are to make voyages of their own. The show is replete with instances of insight...
Hickel, though, is still an Alaskan and well aware of his state's economic anguish. With his tacit blessing, Alaska Governor Keith Miller clumsily tried to move ahead on the $120 million access road. He first got his legislature to approve a bill that would allow the state to build the road and then be repaid by the pipeline consortium. Not wishing to risk stockholder suits, the consortium turned down the idea. In order to reintroduce his plan. Miller asked the legislature to return to Juneau early this month for a special session. But when the legislators discovered that...
...white Queens neighborhood. His basement is formidably stocked with World War II weaponry. His hatred is so raw, his ideas so primitive and naive, that he often radiates a genuinely amusing innocence. For all its funny moments, however, Joe is anything but comedy. It is a film of Freudian anguish, biblical savagery and immense social and cinematic importance...
...turned seriously to painting only when he was 22. He married, had three children and emphasized to interviewers that he lived an entirely ordinary, suburban life. Outwardly he was reserved, cautious, methodical-in style of life the lawyer still. He could be diffident to the point of anguish about a work in progress. Despite the anguish, how he did work: twelve hours a day nearly every day for 60 years...
...Divorce and Remarriage, indeed flatly affirms that the church's "power of the keys" clearly extends to sacramental marriage. Such new views, predict West and Francis, will be a long time taking hold. In the meantime, they argue, tolerance can go a long way toward assuaging the anguish of so many Catholics...