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Word: griefs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maniacs songs like Stockton Gala Days and Gold Rush Brides. "Who were the homestead wives?" the latter asks. "The land was free, yet it cost their lives . . . In letters mailed back home her Eastern sisters they would moan as they would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief." The words are printed like this in the album notes, as if they were bits of homespun prose from some cosmic farmer's almanac; but Merchant sings them with dreamy, insistent fervor, like a reverie from O Pioneers! Or maybe Wisconsin Death Trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fascinating Friction | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...terrified. "Oh, God," he said to himself, "what am I doing here! Dad's going to kill me!" Mark was convicted of homicide as a juvenile but was sentenced to six months probation. Like others who have suffered the same ordeal, he remains torn by his immense relief, guilt, grief, even love. "It may sound sick, but I did love him," says Mark. "I still love him. I mean, he was my father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Kids Kill Abusive Parents | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...detract: Benjamin and Salie are the clear talents of this show, and they deserve some room to experiment. Benjamin plays Bunny with obvious relish, and her lines are delivered smartly, sharply: "Mr. Einhorn, if it took all this to get you here, I kiss the calendar for today. Grief puts erasers in my ears. My world is kept a beautiful place. Artie...I feel a song coming on." Salie is a riveting Bananas; her face visibly pained when forced to swallow pills, her voice full of fear when she describes shock treatments...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Well-Built House of Blue Leaves | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...seam between them)? The thing I had heard about in passing was now alive, breathing, walking the stage, evolving--with each new face, into the terrible truth at its center. A dramatic gesture toward immortality, a dramatist's gesture toward immortality. An immortality of the pain and the grief. An immortality of the voices, the torn and urgent voices that vie in boundless cacophony. Voices to which the rest of us shut our ears to hear of only in passing...

Author: By W. CINQUE Henderson, | Title: Stop and Listen to the Fire | 10/16/1992 | See Source »

...three years. Not that they were shirking their civic responsibilities. A computer glitch forced the d at the end of Hartford into the column used for information about prospective federal jurors. The result: 5,500 healthy Hartford citizens were listed as dead. "It's caused us a lot of grief," concedes Kevin Rowe, the clerk of the federal court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Sentence | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

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