Word: grief
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Diana mattered not only to Britain, but to the whole world, as indicated by the global grief that accompanied her death. She made the world a better place...
...Grief has always been our most well-policed emotion. Mourning is painful, so we make it the stuff of pageantry --of muffled drums and riderless horses and black-draped catafalques. To suffer collectively is, if nothing else, to suffer prettily...
...theatrical adaptation, the first Almodóvar has approved in 20 years, introduces a narrative voice absent from the film - Manuela's dead son Esteban, whose periodic, ghostly appearances both nag and reassure the characters, in much the same contradictory way that Manuela's grief haunts and comforts her. When Agrado delivers the great Almodóvarian declaration that "a woman is more authentic the more she looks like what she has dreamed for herself," the cruel subtext is that Manuela's vision of herself as a mother - like her son's ghost - remains forever out of reach...
...stage also poses challenges to the material. Lesley Manville as Manuela, unlike her counterpart in the film, never displays the intimacy of her grief, in part because of the declamatory demands a large space places on an actor. Fortunately, one character who feels at home is the hammy transvestite Agrado, played by Mark Gatiss...
However, most of John’s grief would come from a much more widespread development: like many Midwest farmers in the 80s, John faced financial hardship and was forced to sell most of the farm and its equipment as larger companies took over most of America’s farming needs. A decade later, however, he was able to make a surprising comeback as a pioneer of organic farming with the assistance of the Community Support Agriculture, and transform the former family farm into a volunteer-driven community farm specializing in organic products...