Word: distressed
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...behaving as expected. Most people who get infected don't get sick enough to end up in a study; the vast majority (nearly 99%) feel hardly anything at all. When there are symptoms, they are almost always accompanied by a fever and about half the time by some gastrointestinal distress. Unless the disease progresses to cause encephalitis or meningitis, it's usually over in less than a week...
...close epistolary friendship with Ray's gay and witty younger brother Rex, from whom he is estranged. This could all be the stuff of a fairly ordinary midlife crisis, albeit in an exotic setting, except for two things. One, the tender, funny eloquence with which Rush sketches Ray's distress. And two, the fact that Ray is actually a secret agent. That's right: Ray works for the CIA gathering information about local political operatives, in particular a brilliant, charismatic local doctor. (Poor, hot and ravaged by aids, Rush's Botswana practically vibrates with political instability.) This isn't just...
...swashbuckling, scene-stealing cohorts Henry and Mortimar (Thomas Odell ’05 and Neil G. Ellingson ’05). El Gallo and associates stage the rape of Luisa and her rescue by Matt. As planned, when Matt saves his damsel in distress, the two fall more deeply in love, and the fathers find themselves with an opportunity to end their public feuding—for who could hate the father of his sweet daughter’s savior...
Alex & Emma is a test of whether Wilson can move beyond boyfriend status to the altar of the leading man. He plays Alex Sheldon, a novelist dogged by gambling debts and the Cuban thugs who want to collect on them. Wilson, who is required to convey more distress than in previous roles, is in virtually every scene, a fact that caused him some real discomfort. "I usually don't mind watching movies I'm in," he says, "but in this, there's just so much of me I can't take a breather and relax while other people are onscreen...
...past, Hornstine’s defenders have emphasized the distress she has undergone since filing her suit...