Word: heartbreakingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HUNTING MISTER HEARTBREAK...
This new journal, also of a voyage to the New World ("Mr. Heartbreak" is J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, author in 1782 of Letters from an American Farmer), is about two-fifths aqueous, which is just enough. Raban sets out from Liverpool in a giant container ship, discovers that the ocean is even larger -- good storm action here -- and then burrows for several weeks each in Manhattan, a small and sleepy Alabama burg called Guntersville and our last frontier, Seattle...
Somewhere along the line, drugs became a convenient escape route. She took the prescription drug Percodan for the ongoing heartbreak and pain, and she dropped LSD ritually for transcendent illumination. "Drugs became a way of blunting the sharpness of the juts. Juts-tapositioning oneself," she says. "I always wanted to blunt and blur what was painful. My idea was pain reduction and mind expansion, but I ended up with mind reduction and pain expansion." Her excesses eventually landed her in a hospital emergency ward, having her stomach pumped...
...Jackson and Travis, are part of a kind of neoconservative musical move back to country basics. No outlaw image or firebrand tunes for these folks. They lay down melodies with a light country swing and a tinge of melancholy. They sing bedrock sentiments about home and hearth, loneliness and heartbreak and getting done in by the big time in the big city. "I consider myself % traditional," Black says. "And I'm new, so if I had to call myself something, it would be 'new traditionalist...
...miles down, 13 miles, 15, 18. Finally, Heartbreak Hill loomed before me. I broke it up into little pieces--16 steps running with my hamstring muscles, 16 steps with my quads, hamstrings, quads, hamstrings. I powered up the whole hill without stopping, and when I got to the top, a half-dazed smile crept onto my face. I had beaten the monster of the Boston Marathon...