Word: distraught
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...Mike Nelson a la Conan O'Briensuccessfully makes the step up from writer tohost. Those who are overly distraught at Joel'sdeparture should heed the advice of the MST 3Ktheme song--"Tell yourself it's just a show, Ireally should relax...
Landin is distraught over the loss, and he is not the only one. Local merchants and musicians know the long-haired folk artist and his tubernamed pooch, and they have posted fliers and spread the word. Landin said many people have contacted him and expressed condolences, and six have claimed having dreams about Potato...
...power, big money, big politics will always generate a degree of savagery in Washington. A distraught former Secretary of Defense James Forrestal threw himself to his death in 1949 out a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda Naval Hospital; Robert McFarlane, National Security Adviser to Ronald Reagan, in 1987 attempted suicide over his implication in the Iran-contra scandal. He survived and recovered...
Hoffa isn't the only one monitoring the affair. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (whose phone is answered in the middle of the night by the fellow sharing his bed) blackmails Bobby with damaging photos. That forces Kennedy to break off the affair, which leaves Marilyn so distraught that she takes a fatal overdose of sleeping pills. The suicide scene is the film's lunatic climax: so many people scurry in and out of Marilyn's house as the actress lies dying (among them Peter Lawford, Bobby himself and an ambulance team that rushes her to the hospital and then...
...assessing how the people in his life have figured into it. Tim Ewing astutely plays Marvin as a man with his life just barely under his control at all times, a seizure, literal or metaphorical, possible at any moment, alternately full of energy and anxiety, lusty happiness and distraught sleeplessness...