Word: distresse
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That, at least, was the pattern until a few years ago, when Ayckbourn's run of hits grew spotty, and he had a fight with the London producers of his 2002 trilogy Damsels in Distress. (He wanted the plays to be staged in repertory, but after mixed reviews, the producers dropped most performances of the two weaker shows.) Then, in February 2006, Ayckbourn's machine-like productivity was interrupted by a serious stroke. He was back to directing within several months, but in June 2007 he announced that he would step down as artistic director of his Scarborough theater...
...very grateful for the experience. I am now more intensely aware of others’ unspeakable distress than I was just a few months ago, less a victim to the desensitization that affects all of us as we see the news flashing dead bodies in front of our faces. Now it’s no longer easy to yawn or change the channel when the news turns to brutality far from home. Perhaps most importantly, I am cognizant of the need to break through the impatient flurry of 24-hour news, and I am driven to seek genuine human contact...
...just as William is happy with his new job, it surely won't be disappointing for his legion of female fans to imagine a handsome prince charging through the mist, rescuing someone in distress...
...outpaces the group’s median return of -4.4 percent over the year. Financial markets have declined dramatically in the past 12 months as the effects of high rates of home loan defaults tore through the economy, wiping out billions in capital. Among the first casualties of the distress on Wall Street was Sowood Capital Management, a Boston-based hedge fund founded by ex-Harvard investment managers, that folded last July and took $350 million of Harvard’s money with it. Despite this early blow, Harvard Management Company, which invests the University’s endowment, credited...
...This song for a land in distress, with lyrics by the poet Abdel Rahim Mansour, comes from the 1982 film An Egyptian Story. It might have been the personal anthem of the movie's writer-director, Youssef Chahine, who died Sunday at 82, six weeks after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. His passing ended a busy, exemplary career that spanned nearly six decades making movies, myths and trouble...