Word: anguishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that a magazine can rouse the passions of its readers need only sift through a sample of TIME'S weekly mail. There was, for instance, the woman from North Carolina who claimed that she broke into tears five times while reading the Nov. 14 issue. Her "flood of anguish" started with an article on funeral services for Marines killed in Lebanon. It continued through the story on the 20th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination ("I cannot relive those days without terrible pain"); the ordeal of Baby Jane Doe, the Long Island infant born with severe birth defects...
...ACTORS PLAY their roles dutifully and perceptively, but too often they tend to wail and to repeat the same frenzied gestures. Appearing overwhelmed by their characters' anguish, they give the production a pretentious note of melodrama. As James Tyrone, Kevin Walker seems the archetypal rough-edged Irishman: loving--if slightly clumsy--towards his wife, self-righteous and defensive towards his sons. But his mannerisms and reactions are too stiff and blatant. He gapes to show he's shocked, shouts to show he's angry. He fails to convey Tyrone's appealing undercurrent of charm, or any of his amusing qualities...
...defeat the Spanish peasants as they fought to save their democracy. During the Spanish Civil War Hitler had his chance to test his newly created weapons and for the first time in history, civilian dwellings were bombed. In his painting filled with twisted images, "Guernica," Pablo Picasso captures the anguish and the terror of the civilian bombings...
...sickening to see how well-intentioned laws are twisted to the point of idiocy. I am surprised the jury did not award thousands to the driver of the subway train for his mental anguish...
...whether a genius or an ordinary citizen perished in the Holocaust. It is only certain that her final volume is a testimony to a green talent and a mature spirit. Each page refreshingly repeats the invaluable moral lesson of her diary: if it is implausible to bid farewell to anguish, it is impossible to close the book on hope . - By Stefan Kanfer