Word: ordeal
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Keenan's An Evil Cradling (Viking; 297 pages; $22.50) conveys the surrealism of the ordeal, the loss of control and melting of identity that come with realizing that you are a pawn in someone else's game. Raised working-class Catholic in Belfast, Keenan is familiar with ethnic hatreds and the politics of wrath. He had a chip on his shoulder and a degree in English literature and had just begun to teach English literature in Beirut when he was grabbed by the Islamic Jihad...
Keenan's An Evil Cradling (Viking; 297 pages; $22.50) conveys the surrealism of the ordeal, the loss of control and melting of identity that come with realizing that you are a pawn in someone else's game. Raised working-class Catholic in Belfast, Keenan is familiar with ethnic hatreds and the politics of wrath. He had a chip on his shoulder, a degree in English literature and had just begun to teach English literature in Beirut when he was grabbed by the Islamic Jihad...
People who survived the ordeal of Hurricane Andrew know an all-consuming fear that another will come again. As a somewhat, but not entirely, disinterested student renting for the summer, I couldn't possibly have felt the same terror...
...actual wedding banquet, the focus and highlight of the movie, contains many of the funniest scenes, as Wai-Tung and Wei-Wei try to successfully survive their prolonged ordeal. Despite Wai-Tung's efforts to keep the wedding as simple as possible, his parents succeed in making it a huge affair with hundreds of guests who sing, dance, gamble, eat and drink into oblivion. The clothing and scenery during the banquet are so exquisite subtitles...
...could know yet if the Lakebergs would ultimately beat the odds and win their painful personal lottery. But it was clear that the couple's ordeal had drawn the nation into a gripping human and medical drama -- and set off a searing ethical debate. Does love demand that parents of a dying child seek any solution, no matter how long the odds of success? Or is it more loving, in some cases, to let nature take its course? Does duty demand that doctors always intervene, or should they set limits? And does it make sense for a society to spend...