Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forever. Or the side effects may worsen. Sometimes you still hear HIV-positive people refer to themselves as carriers. But the virus is only one of the things they carry. Along with it comes a weight of isolation, fears for the future and deep accumulations of rage, humiliation and grief. After all of that, naive hope is one indignity they are in no hurry to accept. So Schwartz is not about to start throwing around the future tense. "Everything is still phrased in the conditional for me," he says. "It's just that the conditions are more positive...
...gulf coast of Mississippi: if you died in Biloxi, you would be buried by Jeremiah O'Keefe; if you died in adjacent Gulfport, Bob Riemann would do the honors. A sometimes bitter rivalry existed between their families, but both names remained beacons in the fog of surprise and grief that overcame people upon the death of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Then something happened to Riemann's empire. His mortuaries still bore the name Riemann, and his sons Mike and David still managed the business. Hearses came and went trailing the usual plumes of sorrow. Outwardly, in fact, nothing seemed...
...Loewen Group and the other big consolidators know full well that family members make funeral arrangements in a daze, often picking a particular home because it happens to be close by or has a familiar name or once buried some other member of the family. Out of grief or a desire not to seem cheap at such a weighty juncture, survivors jettison the consumer instincts they would most certainly employ when shopping for a new car. As a result, funeral homes traditionally haven't had to worry much about price competition. In its annual 10K report to the Securities...
...will Simpson's actions the day he was supposed to surrender to police. Unlike in the criminal trial, where prosecutors were worried that introducing the tale of Simpson's slow-speed Bronco chase would open the door to testimony about a grief-stricken and suicidal husband, Simpson will now be called to account for those hours--and for the fact that he carried with him a disguise, a pile of cash and his passport...
Alger Hiss made almost a fetish of his unflappable objectivity. Presumptuously, no doubt, one imagines that there were shadows in his mind so disturbing (his father's betrayal-suicide, a black hole of grief and abandonment and shame) that cauterized objectivity became the only salvation. I have always believed the Chambers rather than the Hiss version of events, just as I think Chambers was the more gifted and interesting of the two men; there seemed less to Hiss than first appeared and more to Chambers. But I wonder if their lives did not intersect at some subterranean level, some hidden...