Word: griefs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have to wonder sometimes why Presidents even run for re-election, given how things usually turn out. Second terms have a way of veering into wild and menacing terrain, spiked with indictments and scandals and betrayal and grief. Some friends become less friendly because they know you are on your way to retirement while they are on their way to the next campaign. Your team gets tired, the ideas stale, and the fumes of power more toxic. It was through those badlands that President George W. Bush trudged last week, and for once he was walking alone. "The problem...
...clock last Tuesday I was met by a surging mass of humanity 2000 strong. The groans that echoed over the heads of the Death Cab for Cutie fans while they waited in line for the tickets to be gathered carried over to the inside experience. Sadly, grief was matched only by sedation when the band finally made their way onto monochrome stage.The press and the pulpit gave their piece to the fluttering of gossip about the group as early as 1998. Within just a few months of the release of “Something About Airplanes...
...only actress continuously onstage for the entire hour and forty-five minutes of the production, Chibas is charged with conveying all the humor and grief of the play, and she does an admirable job of engaging the audience and creating interest in the life of the woman. She portrays the woman’s complexity of emotion without misstep, avoiding the temptation to overplay the intense aspects of the script...
...play’s title is a testament both to the main character’s occupation as a professional mourner, or “keener,” and to the grief she feels over the climactic events of the play, which linger enigmatically in the background of her entire monologue but are only made clear in the last third. It is finally revealed that a paramilitary group has slaughtered a group of men in the women’s home village. Upon discovering that her son was involved in the plot, the woman must wrestle with her profound...
...relationship to death is thus a complex one, because she is intimately connected with it, and feeling sincere grief is part of her job. She struggles with the question of whether she is able to feel real grief and if it is different from the grief she feels every...