Word: anguishes
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...What?s the difference between religious and sexual ecstasy, between philosophical and emotional anguish? In the First Church of Ray, not much. Several Charles songs were blues adaptations of gospel airs: from ?Talkin? ?Bout Jesus? to ?Talkin? ?Bout You,? from ?This Little Light of Mine? to ?This Little Girl of Mine,? from ?How Jesus Died? to the Doc Pomus composition ?Lonely Avenue.? The first number was Charles? most popular tune thus far; the second was covered, and nicely revamped as rockabilly, by the Everly Brothers; the third (?My covers, they feel like lead/ And my pillow, it feels like stone...
...this is true, but for the moment put it aside. What you need to know, what 2046 makes unavoidably clear, is that Wong Kar-wai is the most romantic filmmaker in the world. In incandescent images of glamorous performers, he details love's anguish and rapture, which are often the same thing. Beautiful women throw themselves at handsome men?Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai?and the men often step aside. Love, the playwright Terry Johnson wrote, is something you fall in. Wong's films make art out of that vertiginous feeling. They soar as their characters plummet...
...crucial thread of humor in the play. Megan E.M. Low ’04 as George Tessman’s devoted aunt cast a perspectivally crucial light of prim conventional opinion on the confines of Hedda’s twisted world; her performance was especially noteworthy for the anguish in her face when she turned away from the other characters and showed her frustration to the audience alone. Jojo Karlin as Berta the maid showed, as indeed all the actors showed, an admirably unwavering intensity in her performance and a self-confident dedication to her character...
...Ring in 2002, three more U.S. versions of Nakata films are on the way. Nakata will direct the American version of Ring 2, due out in November. It's a rare instance of a Japanese director making a Hollywood film--an event that may fill Nakata with the anguish and wonder his own movies engender. --By Richard Corliss
...let’s make her proud.’ I know she’s already gotten the news. But she’s with our team. Her heart’s with us, she’s with us in spirit today and even now in our anguish...