Word: anguishes
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...worst hours in presidential power shifts follow the unexpected episodes like the assassination of John Kennedy. On Air Force One bringing both Kennedy's body and Lyndon Johnson, the new President, back to Washington, there played out a scene of anguish and exhilaration, a weird struggle contained in the hurtling fuselage. Devastating sorrow among the Kennedy people turned to a blind hatred against the statutory heirs to power. The Johnson group, though stunned by the death of Kennedy, could scarcely contain their satisfaction at gaining the office that had eluded them in the electoral process...
...worth preserving even at the cost of her brother's life. Yet Bloom breathes life and warmth into Isabella . We see her fear when pleading with the governor for mercy for her brother, her fury when the governor proposes sex in exchange for her brother's freedom, her anguish when she perceives her brother to have compromised his honor: "yet hath he in him such a mind of honor/ That had he 20 heads to tender down/ On 20 bloody blocks, he'ld yield them up,/ Before his sister should her body stoop/To such abhorred pollution...
...central concern. Allen, his wife (Mia Farrow) and another couple are trying to live with the dulling compromises of long liaisons, yet also searching for sustaining warmth as the chill of the years settles on them. Trial separations, silly affairs, are the results, not the causes of their anguish...
Anyway, it's absurd to discuss Cop Killer as part of the "confrontation of ideas" -- or even as an authentic anguished cry of rage from the ghetto. Cop Killer is a cynical commercial concoction, designed to titillate its audience with imagery of violence. It merely exploits the authentic anguish of the inner city for further titillation. Tracy Marrow is in business for a buck, just like Time Warner. Cop Killer is an excellent joke on the white establishment, of which the company's anguished apologia ("Why can't we hear what rap is trying to tell us?") is the punch...
...government and Nelson Mandela's African National Congress collapsed last week, it was attributable as much to a collision between these diverging worlds as it was to the failure of the negotiators or the latest massacre of blacks. That is one reason why the breakdown has caused so much anguish among people of all races. After more than two years of progress, they were suddenly asking themselves whether their remarkable attempt at reconciliation might actually fail, and with disastrous consequences. "I can only say," wrote Allister Sparks, the South African journalist and author, "that I despaired for our country...