Word: anguish
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When the international bankers just over a year ago indicated that they would not extend new loans and would not roll over the loans to the South African government then in place, the South African government responded in anguish. It froze funds, forbade financial transfers out of the country, stopped trading the Rand and began a campaign to keep the money flowing...
This cocky Yankee fan, accustomed to victory as a rite of fall, began to understand the uniqueness--also depth--of Boston's special pain. Not like Cubs pain (never to get there at all), or Phillies pain (lousy teams, but they did take it all)--but the deepest possible anguish of running a long and hard course, again and again, to the very end, and then self-destructing one inch from the finish line...
...begins, the twin plagues of drought and overabundance have dealt yet another blow to America's stricken farmers. In the following pages, TIME's Hugh Sidey looks at the ravaged Southeast and the surfeit in his native Midwest; a moving letter from a North Carolina farmwife reveals the personal anguish of a lifetime of work that ends in bankruptcy; and a worldwide assessment of the farm dilemma shows why it is proving so intractable...
...world is buzzing with speculation about what is not on the canvas. Friends openly debate whether Wyeth is philandering or faithful. Why did he keep the collection hidden from his wife? And why did he wait so long to release it? Says Artist George Segal: "There's an anguish any artist has between wanting to keep private and wanting to show. It's internal warfare. Showing new paintings is like dropping your pants in public...
...there should be a moratorium on permanent implants of the Jarvik-7 heart. Though Schroeder lived a record 620 days -- almost a third longer than Artificial Heart Recipient Murray Haydon, who died in June -- it was a seesaw survival that mixed moments of triumph with stretches of pain and anguish for both him and his family. "It's incredible how many times he had medical complications that would have finished a normal person," says DeVries...