Word: distressfully
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...over Rev. Jerry Falwell, a social conservative who sued Hustler for publishing a cartoon suggesting that he had sex with his mother in an outhouse. The Court found in Flynt’s favor, establishing a precedent protecting obvious satire of a public figure even if it causes emotional distress. Eight years later, Flynt was immortalized by Woody Harrelson in the sympathetic Roman Polanski film, The People vs. Larry Flynt...
...urge you to listen to their distress after years of trying to do better,” said Laura B. Roberts ’74, a Cambridge resident who does not live in Riverside but came to support the Carlson petition...
...hottest talents in the business. In Pirates he plays Will Turner, who, with his olive skin and wispy goatee, must be the best-looking swordsmith in the West Indies. Fueled by love, Turner sets out with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) to rescue damsel-in-corseted-distress Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) from dastardly pirate Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush). When you watch Bloom parrying onscreen, you see shades of pirate-movie icon Errol Flynn - a natural. But Bloom was actually the last lead to be cast. "We really needed somebody who could hold his own as the love interest-Errol Flynn...
...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...