Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after they lost the right to have two-year-old Tyler ever set foot in their home again, Sharon Bottoms and her lover April Wade sat on a couch beneath a framed handwritten copy of the vows of love and commitment that brought on all their grief. Decorated with a rose drawn by April and signed Oct. 27, 1992, the pledge reads, "With this ring, I give you my love forever. I promise to be faithful, honest and totally yours, for as long as I shall live . . . I ask that you take me as I will take you, to love...
...playwright, actor Robert Schenkkan, 40, went long stretches without work, uprooted himself from New York to California, grew politically inflamed and endured the deaths of his mother and, especially agonizing, his stillborn first child. "We lost a lot of friends because of their inability to deal with our grief," he recalls. "They seemed to think we should be quiet and move on. But I look at the whole world through that lens now, and it gave me the theme of denial, of misguided forgetting, that runs through my work." The image of a dead or lost child became the leitmotiv...
Busy fellow, and nobody plays harried better than Harrison Ford. He plays other things well too, notably in the scene in which, as he is interrogated by the police, he comes to realize that he is their chief suspect. Grief, outrage, incomprehension, terror -- what a rich mixture of emotions he registers in a matter of seconds. Jones may have a somewhat simpler line to play in the movie, but he is a marvelously incisive actor, and he brings his character right up to the edge of the demonic without falling into the psychotic abyss. He is playing the role...
...White House in his gray Nissan, crossed the Potomac River to a Civil War fort preserved as a national park in Virginia, and apparently put his father's antique .38-cal. Colt revolver in his mouth and ended his life, leaving those who knew him in stunned and uncomprehending grief...
...advised differently. The DeBoers should have relinquished Jessica immediately, argues Beverly Hills lawyer David Leavitt, one of the country's pre-eminent adoption lawyers: "Any good adoption lawyer understands that if a birth mother changes her mind within a few weeks, and you resist, you're in for terrible grief...