Word: anguishingly
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...Love," allows for incredible solos. Contrasting to the tightness of "She's the One" is the emotion of "Night," where Springsteen's vocal and Clarence Clemon's blaring, buzzing sax transcend the simple message--"You work from nine to five/And somehow you survive/Till the night"-- and make boredom and anguish palpable...
...especially as a black man--to shirk the contradictions of the whole planet: let's say, the contradiction between the atomic war and the people's war. This demand isn't as finicky as it sounds. The precise form of his awareness isn't too important: "A vague anguish drifting from page to page is enough to demonstrate the existence of the bomb." The writer's totalization belongs to the domain of non-knowledge. But without it, he would be reckoning up an abstract world, not a living world, and that is the shallow goal of an entertainer...
...Limbo. For her adoptive parents, the anguish is already five months old. For a while, Julia Ann Quinlan prayed for Karen's recovery, then that "God would take her." Joseph Quinlan, a section supervisor at Warner-Lambert, a pharmaceutical company, found it harder to give up, but "finally, I had to." Karen's neurologist declared she had "extensive cerebral damage" and saw "no hope." Nonetheless a respirator and other medical aid promised to hold her almost indefinitely in her limbo between life and death. The Quinlans realized they would have to take an affirmative step to allow Karen...
...PHILOSOPHICAL MOOD of The Basement Tapes falls somewhere between the existential anguish of Blonde on Blonde and its moral resolution on John Wesley Harding. Dylan has gone beyond those visions of Johanna which kept him up past dawn...
...sworn duty to drown the flames and clear the air. As a zealous fire fighter, he has been taking care of urban conflagrations for twelve years. To dissipate the clouds of rumor and misinformation, he wrote Report from Engine Co. 82, a bestselling documentary that described the routine and anguish of men whose job is actuarially the most dangerous in the U.S. As if his occupation were not hazardous enough, Smith has now produced a novel, a trial by fire of a different sort. On the evidence, he earns solid if un spectacular probationary status...