Word: anguishes
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...derives from the assumption that today's watershed in your lives marks the beginning of experience. It simply isn't so. Life's most meaningful experiences are those of early childhood -- experimentation with fire, ache of first grief, joy of love returned, and the other side of that coin, anguish of affection repulsed. So far as adult experience is concerned, to one who will bear a few of its stripes to the grave, it seems a thing to be avoided. Thomas North put it pithily in his introduction to (Plutarch's) Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: 'Experience...
...Empire Burlesque, Dylan is in fine dramatic form: wrenching on ballads like I'll Remember You, furious on Seeing the Real You at Last and spooky on When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky, one of those pacesetter Dylan songs in which romantic anguish kaleidoscopes into a sneak preview of Armageddon. The writing in the album is near peak. Tight Connection to My Heart is a playful bit of lovelorn apocrypha, a mood, once established, that turns sinister toward the end of the record, with the ominous Something's Burning, Baby. The last song, Dark Eyes, is like...
...walks out before the end of an apparently genuine snuff film, and he refuses an obliging friend's invitation to rape a drugged and trussed up twelve-year- old girl. He is also sensitive. The crying jag he experiences at his psychiatrist's office may suggest some inner anguish, although it might just as easily occur because he spends so much time drugged to the eyeballs...
...Democratic congressional task force last week on the plight of economically pressed farm families. Journalists and onlookers jammed the hearing room to listen to the actresses who had played farm wives in The Dollmaker (Fonda), Country (Lange) and The River (Spacek). "It is heartbreaking to witness their anguish as they watch their lives stripped away," said Lange as she choked back her emotion and brought Fonda to tears. Warned Spacek, who lives on a farm in Virginia: "Our largest and most vital industry is disintegrating." Administration officials, added Fonda, "roll over the debt of Poland more obligingly than of Iowa...
Dotson Rader, who is seen embracing Williams on the back cover of Cry of the Heart, was a close companion in the playwright's declining years. Unlike Spoto, he evokes the winsome qualities of Williams' naughtiness and ructions, the merriment as well as the anguish of that time. Rader's reminiscences are if anything raunchier and more explicit than Williams' own, and without footnotes or explanation of sources, some of his anecdotes about the peccadilloes of the famous seem too bad to be true. Beguiling as gossip, Rader's book has none of the inclusiveness or gravamen of Spoto...