Word: anguish
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...started with the lighting: Soft, buttery yellow, with that sort of Vaseline-smeared quality favored by Streisand, Walters and Sawyer. And while Diane makes it work, George and Al both looked absolutely absurd with those halogen halos circling their rock-hard coifs. Then the conversation started, and the anguish increased. There was Al, crinkling the corners of his eyes in his best "I feel your pain" imitation and managing only to look like he was in some sort of gastrointestinal distress. And here was George, leaning in so close to Oprah that he looked ready to fall right...
LIFE IS GOOD Barbara Coloroso, the author of Parenting Through Crisis: Helping Kids in Times of Loss, Grief, and Change (HarperCollins), is a great believer in openness with children in the face of death. "We can try to hide the loss from them, try to shield them from the anguish, convince ourselves they are too young to understand--they will still grieve, but without the comfort, support, knowledge and tools they need...
...continent of sin, the dump for English criminals. Australians, unlike Americans, have never felt they had a mission or a message for a fallen world. There is no doctrine of Australian exceptionalism. If this deprived us of the heights of American moral expectation, it spared us from the anguish of American disappointment. Not a bad trade...
...factors that got him a doctoral fellowship at Stanford, "I was never able to be as proud of getting into Stanford as my [nonblack] classmates could be." But he didn't turn down the fellowship. Instead, he wants to spare future generations of blacks such anguish by immediately abolishing affirmative action, thereby bestowing on them "the gift" of competing as equals...
This Sacramento, Calif., rock group finds rhythm in noise, moments of clarity amid stretches of anguish. Its deejay seamlessly mixes in with the other players, giving the band's songs subtle texture and depth. White Pony's emotional range is impressive: the track Knife Prty [sic] cries out with murderous abandon; the spare Teenager creeps along carefully, with singer Chino Moreno sighing his lines above a tender guitar. Deftones scrapes the rust off the metal/hip-hop genre...