Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...epicenter of Africa's grief and suffering is Somalia, reduced to a state of virtually irredeemable misery by war and starvation. Savage civil strife among clans has destroyed the capital of Mogadishu and killed 150,000 people since the government was overthrown 19 months ago. The survivors in this mostly desert land are victims of a famine that threatens the lives of 1.8 million of Somalia's nearly 6 million people. After months of internal resistance and foreign indifference, aid is finally coming. A U.S. food airlift announced in mid-August has just begun to bring relief, as officials struggle...
...Johnson's work was on this distinguished level, and it declined badly as, around the end of World War II, his life fell apart. First, to his unassuageable grief, Krake died of cancer. Then he began to show the symptoms of tertiary syphilis. The last works that hold some spark of visual life are Johnson's religious subjects, such as the beautiful tempera drawing Ezekiel Saw the Wheel (circa 1942-43). After the war he began a series of paintings of Fighters for Freedom: political figures (Chiang Kai-shek, Churchill, Nehru and others) and icons of black history, such...
...problem shared by Single White Female and Raising Cain, two new evil- twin horror movies, is that the characters in them apparently haven't seen any movies. Just by having caught Fatal Attraction, Allie Jones (Bridget Fonda) in Single White Female could have avoided a lot of the grief she suffers at the hands of her roommate-from-hell Hedy (Jennifer Jason Leigh). If Hedy's possessive rages hadn't given Allie a hint, the dead pet would have. And in Raising Cain, none of the cops has seen Psycho. Otherwise they might have been suspicious of that tall creature...
Jerry, a suburban Atlanta therapist in his late 20s, knew he was running major risks when he fell in love half a dozen years ago with a man some years older. From the first date, they practiced safe sex. But there is no prophylactic protection against grief. When the relationship was less than a year old, his lover was found to have AIDS. Jerry says he never considered leaving during five harrowing years. But he adds tearfully that he could not imagine involving himself with an HIV-positive man again...
...first wave of gay response to AIDS was fear, mixed alternately with denial and paranoia. The second wave, the past few years, has been a therapeutic anger, an opportunity for the grief-stricken to vent their pain and for the dying to give meaning to their premature passing. The third and current wave of gay response to AIDS is once again dominated by fear, this time based on a sense of grim inevitability. The medical news is not good. The civil rights struggle is taking far longer than most people thought. The gay leaders during the first decade...