Word: griefs
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...after 9/11, incidents of dangerous heart rhythms in cardiac patients around New York City more than doubled. After a major earthquake in Taiwan in 1999, hospitalization for heart attacks skyrocketed around the epicenter. Even an isolated, private event - the sudden death of a spouse, for instance - can bring on grief so severe that sometimes our hearts, quite literally, break...
...most elegant propositions in the social sciences, free trade causes a lot of grief. The case for trade is simply put: if each economy produces what it does best and then trades with other economies for their goods and services, everyone's wealth goes up. Trade is about specialization. But the biggest threat to expanding trade today is that the rich industrial nations continue to block the food and fabric exports that are the natural specialty of poorer developing countries...
When Mel first talked about Young Frankenstein, I never thought it would happen. It wasn't until after Anne's death that he really started to write. It was a release from his grief, and I think the writing saved him. When he lost Anne, he lost everything. Mel sees the audience laugh each night, and it infuses him with a big breath of life...
...egged me on to continue working on The Producers after Mike's death, and after Anne died, I encouraged him to work on Young Frankenstein. A show that is so filled with humor is a great antidote to grief. To laugh and to hear the sound of laughter is healing...
...steps into the sea, bent with grief that is all the more wrenching because she stands in an ever-shifting body of water rather than on solid ground. But the gods feel pity. They return the body of her dead husband to his home shore, and then, miraculously, transform the lovers into sea birds. This transformation is visually realized through a series of highly stylized movements that I don’t think would work on dry land. In the water, however, it’s a wondrous scene...