Word: anguishingly
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There are more mundane reasons First Wives is a hit. It has three stars playing to their strengths: Midler the canny yenta, Keaton mining lodes of pruney anguish, Hawn a glorious hoot encased in her collagenized lips and sprawling ego. And before the film gets haggard in Act III, it's pretty darn funny, thanks to director Hugh Wilson (who wove a camaraderie of losers in his TV show WKRP in Cincinnati), screenwriter Robert Harling (Steel Magnolias) and rewriter Paul Rudnick (The Addams Family...
...opened documents make public what President Eisenhower learned shortly after hostilities ended: up to 1,000 U.S. servicemen remained in communist hands. "The prisoners were sold down the river," Corso says. "We abandoned them." Documents turned up by Pentagon investigators and released by the subcommittee reveal an Administration in anguish. A memo dated Dec. 22, 1953, reports a conversation between Eisenhower and Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens concerning more than 900 U.S. prisoners who should have been returned but were unaccounted for. Stevens said he had the names of "610 Army people that have just disappeared from the camps...
When I read of Job's anguish, how he lost his home, all of his children and finally his health, I realize that my worries are laughable. Sure, I've been upset at times. I vividly remember the despair I felt last spring when I learned that my blocking group was quadded; I did not, however, feel the kind of pain that prompted Job to cry, "Perish the day when I was born." Not by a long shot...
...baffled by the anguish over the destruction of frozen, fertilized human eggs that have exceeded the five-year storage limit set by English law [ETHICS, Aug. 12]. Why do so many of these fertility clinics even exist? Why do we have clinics devoted to making children in cases of infertility? Instead, why not turn our maternal and paternal feelings toward the millions of abandoned children worldwide who are condemned to suffer lives of abject misery or even slavery? Why aren't the governments of the world attempting to settle on a unified standard law to promote the adoption of these...
...Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, were torched--30 black churches in an eight-state arc from Louisiana to Virginia had been burned over the past 18 months. Only a handful of these arson cases have been solved. Such senseless destruction strikes at the soul of congregations. But their anguish deepens when they, the victims, also become suspects...