Word: distressfully
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...long, rectangular room that had once been a synagogue. Banked in two long tiers, the audience craned to watch the play as though peering from the ends of a bowling alley. But no one complained. Off-Broadway patrons have long since learned not to insist on comfortable surroundings. Any distress at last week's off-Broadway opening of August Strindberg's Easter was caused by the play and the production, not by the theater. To come off at all, the palely symbolic, poorly translated Easter-which creates joy out of the woe of a bedeviled Swedish family...
...Anastasia, Actress Bergman is a princess in distress. Nobody believes she is who she says she is, and even she herself, benumbed by the horrors of the revolution and her escape, is inclined to doubt her identity. The doubt is soon complicated by the fact that she is induced to impersonate herself by the wicked General Bounine, a White Russian adventurer who would like to lay hands on the "Czar's fortune" deposited in the Bank of England. The spectator is thus caught in a dramatic paradox (virtue can triumph only if vice does) that keeps his mind engaged...
Like Editor Amberg, some news executives now even run names of parents of juvenile criminals, plus their occupations and marital status, to illustrate their belief that teen-age crime is not necessarily a product of broken homes or economic distress but reflects a widespread breakdown of moral values...
...carried out at a great altitude." If the world by now was left a little breathless and confused, the distractions were working well. But not all the confusion was planned. Before the week ended, it was clear that the Kremlin was suffering from divided counsels, hot tempers and international distress...
There are other ways of bypassing the code, which stipulates that a broadcaster "should not accept advertising material which describes or dramatizes distress," e.g., commercials showing muscles throbbing with pain. Also questionable is the indiscriminate use of such words as "safe," "without risk" and "harmless." Broad casters also often resort to pseudo-pharmaceutical names or impressive "scientific" terms that the average viewer may not understand ("If you're tired from lack of thiamin and riboflavin . . ."). Others relate doctors and celebrities to a product by innuendo...