Word: griefs
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...service, which was broadcast outside over loudspeakers and on three mammoth television screens that had been erected in Hyde and Regent's parks, lasted just over an hour. It demonstrated again the soothing, cathartic power of ritual, the way in which ceremony can provide a shared context for personal grief. There were two dramatic diversions from the normal order of things. First, Elton John sang Candle in the Wind, a song he had originally written to celebrate Marilyn Monroe, with the lyrics revised to honor his friend Diana. A number of people had questioned the propriety of a rock star...
...that, swimming makes Frank face his own grief: throughout the film we find out that the sea is connected to Frank’s memories of his other son, who died as a child...
...monologue on rape is mirrored by a scene among the men about being wrongly accused of rape.This adaptation is so seamless that it became difficult to conceive of the two plays as separate entities. The actors were given the difficult task of taking on all this humor, grief, and occasional didacticism, largely in monologue form without reliance on interaction between characters. By and large, they rose wonderfully to the occasion. Among the men, Bryan C. Barnhill II ’08’s Brother #3 was mesmerizing in his rant on the assumption that young black men are dangerous...
...Deposition, ca. 1523 shows the disposal of Christ's body as a laborious, undignified business. In The Lamentation, 1530-35, Christ's mother is seated on the ground, her son lying on her knees. A woman leans her head on Mary's shoulder-her face ugly with grief. His massive fresco, The Last Judgment, on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, was completed in 1541. Michelangelo painted no more after 1550, working instead on sculpture and architecture-he was now chief architect to St. Peter's in Rome. In his final years his drawing technique became more hesitant...
...soon as he was released, Ryan went back to Shelbyville High School and asked to re-enroll. The Ryan Tindle that administrators knew, however, was nothing but grief. Wary administrators balked at letting him back in. He had to wait until a new principal arrived before he could convince the school that he was serious about his new leaf. But now he had to catch up quickly on a lot of lost years. "I went back with a fifth-grade education," he says. "That was the last time I had paid attention in school...