Word: distressfully
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...Astronauts Bill Lenoir and Bob Overmyer experienced nausea and vomiting during the fifth flight of the Columbia last November. Lenoir's distress helped force changes in planned space tasks during the five-day mission. Space sickness, renamed by NASA "space adaptation syndrome" (SAS), was recognized only a decade ago. Says former Astronaut Mike Collins: "We didn't have much of a problem with space sickness as long as we were strapped in Mercury and Gemini. Same for the Russians. It's when we all began floating around in Skylab and the Russians in Salyut that the guys...
...York approved still another approach. The case grew out of the notorious 1977 hammer killing of Yale Student Bonnie Garland by Richard Herrin, her jealous exboyfriend. The judge upheld a jury award of $30,000 to the parents against Herrin, ruling that he recklessly caused severe emotional distress. Says Bonnie's mother Joan: "Now a criminal can't 'I have no responsibility for the damage I've done...
...song the unvoiced terror of my life. The idea of the veil, as the way a man sees his life, is frightening and horrible. It cries out and angers you. Imagine such a limitation, such a prison for oneself or one's children. It was an indication of the distress under which this Black man lived, and many other Black men and women as well. The veil was both an image and an accurate description of the condition of Black life in America, a cover of the rage and desperation of Black people. It was then the tearing of this...
...reduce Tootsie And Charles Durning as Julie's father who falls in love with Dorothy gives an equally effective performance although his emotions are much more low key and subtle. His courtship of Dorothy is believable as we see his affections for her develop. And we empathize with his distress at finding out that Dorothy is only a man in disguise...
...Sophisticated as they may be, even the French like to see movies made at home, starring actors they can identify with. "You simply can't have a strong filmgoing climate unless you have a healthy domestic film product," says Silvera. "Britain and Italy have learned that to their distress." Though Americans are familiar with titles like The Last Metro and La Cage aux Folles, most French movies, which lean toward police thrillers, comedies and love stories, never cross the Atlantic, since distributors are convinced that they would not find an audience...