Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mayor Feinstein prided herself on being a hands-on administrator, often to the distress of other officials. When a foul-up occurred, she was apt to respond with a blistering dressing down or at times even a bout of temper behind closed doors. Once she summoned police chief Cornelius Murphy to her office posthaste...
...publicity, he took center stage last week in a media barrage that ricocheted from Crossfire to Nightline, Good Morning America to Geraldo. Describing his device as "humane, dignified and painless" -- and his critics as "brainwashed ethicists" or "religious nuts" -- Kevorkian insisted that he wanted only to help patients in distress. "My biggest enemies," he says, "are the medical organizations because the independent doctors tell me they are behind me, but they can't speak...
...prospect of his downfall set off a fresh round of amazement among Trump watchers, who only four months ago had savored the melodrama of his separation from his wife Ivana and his affair with the model Marla Maples. The distress of Donald, the biggest self-promoter of the past decade, was too poetic to resist. TRUMP IN A SLUMP declared the New York Daily News. UH-OWE! said the city's Post, which dubbed Trump's new casino "the eighth blunder of the world...
...Francisco is not the only epicenter of this distress. Deborah Norville, new co-anchor on the Today show and a closet accordion player, assaulted her audience with a blunt instrument rendition of the dreaded Lady of Spain. No earthquakes were reported, though the performance succeeded in further sinking the show's shaky Nielsens, while Norville's personal Richter rating slid glissando-style to C below low A, somewhere to the left of the keyboard...
Succinctly put, Giering's voice is beautiful. She displays amazing range and feeling, perfectly conveying the emotional distress of the troubling lyrics. But the piano accompaniment in this piece is too heavy, at times nearly burying Giering's voice. The piano is chronic fault in Parents, Lovers, and Other Problems, though in some sequences it is a less major distraction...