Word: anguishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to be in jeopardy," says one Carter strategist. The budget resolutions merely set a target; congressional committees can and often do vote more money for specific programs than the budget resolutions allow. It is to the appropriations committees that lobbyists probably will make their loudest cries of anguish...
That day after the South Carolina defeat, Connally, his closest advisers, his wife Nellie and his oldest son John B. III flew home. For 5½ hr. in flight they mulled over his chances. With little dissent and little anguish, Connally reached his decision. In Houston, Nellie's arm was around him, patting him gently as he announced, his eyes moistening slightly, that he did not "intend ever to be a candidate again...
...transformation involved far more than the post-party droops, more even than anguish at the loss of customers and of a brief but vivid camaraderie. There was, as well, a sort of collective separation anxiety-a strictly modern malaise that occurs when a place newly spoiled by celebrity is suddenly disconnected from the media's great glory machine. Lake Placid's inevitable plunge began when TV and the whole journalistic shebang unplugged itself and disappeared...
...strokes-was impaired. For all that, Beth finally won a bronze medal in the 3,000 and would have been the all-round women's skating champion if the events had been judged collectively, as they are in the world championships. Still, her medal brought tears of anguish as well as joy. At her press conference, she said: "I'm happiest when I skate for myself. But this year I feel I have to skate for the press. The hell with you guys...
...points of passion, moments when men look into the abyss of self-revelation. In Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, which begins this cycle, there are three pitch points. The first comes as Agamemnon reasons with his daughter about the need for her death. Shrapnel sensitively conveys the deep inner anguish of a man torn between duty to his country and love for his child. As Clytemnestra, Suzman moves through a parabola of feelings, marking her again as one of the finest actresses on the English-speaking stage. And as Buxton reaches the heartbreaking conclusion that the one life...