Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While all this may serve the interests of justice, it will doubtless cause greater pain to parents already stunned by the loss of a child to crib death or some other natural cause. Now, in addition to enduring their grief, they will face more intense questioning from officials. But SIDS parents are among the most fervent supporters of stricter investigations. "The truth," notes Thomas Moran, president of the SIDS alliance, "is that bias and confusion will disappear only when people are really sure why every baby in this country dies...
Instead, scenes such as those between Violetta and Alfredo's moral-minded father are characterized by the dignity with which Violetta conveys her grief at being forced to leave Alfredo and the sympathy she receives from his father. Certain stage directions are perplexing, such as Violetta's unexpected entrance onstage during the overture, but overall the plot unwinds with style and economy...
...broadly as in more elaborate drama, from the orphanage hardships of Boys Town to the comic angst of Jewish suburbia, from Edith Wharton's frustrated sex life to Lynn Redgrave's thwarted longing for her father's esteem, from the Los Angeles riots to personal calamities of illness and grief. Actors vary from the well-established (Redgrave, three-time Tony Award winner Irene Worth and Regina Taylor of TV's I'll Fly Away) to the + succes d'estime (Eric Bogosian, Anna Deavere Smith) to the yearning-for- discovery (Sherry Glaser, Claudia Shear, Barnaby Spring). Some play a multitude...
Jansen has a different persona, however, in Olympic competition. It was etched into the minds of fans on Valentine's Day in 1988 when his older sister Jane died of cancer. Later that day in Calgary, full of grief but nonetheless the gold-medal favorite in the 500 m, he fell. Millions of hearts cleared a place for Jansen that evening and kept him there after he fell again in the 1,000-m race...
...film refuses to get mired in grief, however. The libido reasserts itself, and the men turn to discussions of safe sex. Huestis' documentary does not shy away from portraying some of the extremes of sexual expression among gays. Sadomasochism is treated the same as monogamy or celibacy. For Huestis, all are equally valid options that gay men have today. Corbitt, for example, speaks about refusing to have either the gay or the Black communities tell him how to live his life. He denies any political significance to his being whipped by a white South African, stating that his penis...