Word: distraughtly
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...poet living in Mexico want to take him to see a nearby volcano. ?The way,? the poet is told once the trip has begun, ?is to go up the mountain and make it all complete.? In Helping, a man sober for 18 months starts drinking again. He tells his distraught wife that ?this drink I?m having is the only worthwhile thing I?ve done in the last year and a half.? The morning after, he assesses the repercussions. ?There would be damn little justice and no mercy.? One of Stone?s stories is in fact called Absence of Mercy...
This controversy provides the impetus for the surreal plot of The Term Paper Artist. In the novella, the character named David Leavitt, distraught over the suppression of his novel and suffering from writer's block as a result, hides out at his father's house in Los Angeles and does halfhearted research at the UCLA library for a novel he's pretty sure he will never write. By chance he meets Eric, an attractive undergraduate, who invites him to his apartment to share some marijuana. Hoping for sex, Leavitt learns that the seductive Eric has a more complex transaction...
Which is not to say that the story behind Rigoletto constitutes great dramatic material. Court jester to the Duke of Mantua, the hunch-backed Rigoletto makes the mistake of ridiculing Monterone, a distraught father who accuses the notorious, skirt-chasing duke of dishonoring his daughter. Monterone responds by cursing Rigoletto, praying that he may know first-hand a father's misery. Of course, the curse comes true, for the duke has already espied Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda from afar. Not knowing who she is, he proceeds to make her his next conquest...
...than usual, she cries until her mother, alerted by the baby sitter, rushes home to feed her. Cuevas has begun feeding her baby solid food, but Isabella obviously still needs to suckle. "When I have duty or fly at night," Cuevas told her commander, "the baby cries for hours." Distraught over such episodes, Cuevas recently paid a colleague $50 to take her place on a 24-hour duty shift...
Peterson, though, hid out for a few days with his parents, who are divorced, before turning himself in last Thursday morning. His lawyer, Joseph Hurley, had announced this ahead of time, and a huge crowd of reporters and onlookers greeted Peterson. Someone jeered, "Baby killer!" and Peterson's distraught mother cried, "I want to go with him! I want to go with...