Word: grief-stricken
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...first wave of gay response to AIDS was fear, mixed alternately with denial and paranoia. The second wave, the past few years, has been a therapeutic anger, an opportunity for the grief-stricken to vent their pain and for the dying to give meaning to their premature passing. The third and current wave of gay response to AIDS is once again dominated by fear, this time based on a sense of grim inevitability. The medical news is not good. The civil rights struggle is taking far longer than most people thought. The gay leaders during the first decade...
...course, throughout all of this, the grief-stricken cry from the third floor of Weld reminded all of the uncaring eye of statistics. The berserk first-year was dragged off in a straight-jacket, most likely only to return in the fall to find himself with all kinds of floaters in his common room (you know, on account of some dingbat explanation like fewer juniors taking the semester off due to the recession...
...life is about to be radically altered. The Ilsa stand-in is Bobby Duran (Lena Olin), who lures Jack into doing a little light smuggling for her and then for the longest time resists being lured into an affair with him. Her reasons are sound: she is grief-stricken when led to believe that her husband (Raul Julia) has been murdered by the Batista regime, and she is in shock after enduring torture in a government jail. She does, however, repay Jack in the customary manner for arranging her escape...
...victims arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport unaware of the tragedy. Gazing up at the electronic arrivals board, they read an ominous message next to the flight number: SEE AGT. When they found a Pan Am agent, they were led into a lounge and told the news. One grief-stricken woman, shouting "My baby! My baby!," threw herself on the ground...
...pregnant, but just before the birth, she suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Shortly after the baby was delivered by Cesarean section, she died, at 18, having known Jimmy less than a year. The grief-stricken widower went on a short trip to West Africa, and when he returned, he found that the Patino family had kidnaped the baby, claiming Jimmy was an unfit father. He went to court and got the baby back...