Word: grief-stricken
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...Despite great slabs of satire on the nature of monarchy, banking and literature, Victory turns on her journey - and what a journey it turns out to be. "Any fool can rob his enemy," she says, caught stealing from a band of fellow Puritans. "Where's the victory in that?" Grief-stricken and raped before becoming the pregnant confidante of Devonshire and comforter of the King, Mrs Bradshaw embodies "the wisdom of compliance...
...journalist and author Alex Kershaw has also gotten close. In his elegant Capa biography, Blood and Champagne (Macmillan; 298 pages), Kershaw portrays an indisputably brave and talented photographer who could also be reckless, cynical and opportunistic. Much as Capa held his camera only inches from the faces of the grief-stricken and the grievously wounded, Kershaw focuses - tightly and unblinkingly - on a man who "invented himself" and who was exposed to an excess of both joy and horror in his 41 years. Born André Friedmann in Budapest in 1913, Capa entered a world in conflict, between nations and between...
...America?s doctors have been busy this past week, especially in New York and Washington, D.C. Physicians report liberal dispensation of sleeping pills and an upswing in requests for emergency psychotherapy sessions. New York City?s major hospitals opened free social work clinics to deal with the influx of grief-stricken and traumatized people into their emergency rooms...
...loved ones, they are presented with a bill and a choice: pay up, get lost or get hurt. Huang was asked to pay for the "storage" of her sister's "smelly" body. The only thing unusual about her case is that she didn't oblige. Most Taiwanese are too grief-stricken or scared to put up a fuss...
...Adnan onto his knees in the empty street. His first shot hit Adnan in the shoulder; the next entered his neck and killed him. As the two gunmen hurried down an alley, Jalila wailed over her son's body. "God is most great," she lamented. On her knees, the grief-stricken woman took the blood from Adnan's wounds and smeared it across her face...