Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...philosophical dimension because of his typically Spanish ability to combine gaiety and humor with the grotesque. Though this does not mean for him specific social concerns as it does with Goya or Picasso. Miro's world even as it exhibits the primal images of Jungian psychology does not cause pain. It does not probe or disturb the way Klee's calligraphic revelations of the subconscious seem to. Using one of his recurrent forms--the ladder Miro prefers to drift into a sea or sky world. As he said when the war broke out "I felt a deep desire to escape...
...killed. It is tragic. The Cypriots now are acclaiming the dead man as their hero, and the British press is acclaiming me as theirs. You may think I am talking like a grandmother, but there is far too much hatred here. There is al ready too much death, pain and tears in Cyprus...
History may place the death, pain and tears as but passing stages in the 20th-century's long funeral procession of British colonialism. There came Ireland, India, Palestine, Kenya, Malaya, and now Cyprus. But the special tragedy of Cyprus is that it involves friends, and that the suffering should be so simply avoidable. A clear statement from the British government promising the right of self-determination at a definite time in the near future to Cyprus' 520,000 people could halt overnight a conflict that daily grows more violent and more dangerous. Week by week it becomes more...
...refuse to quit. They pull some of the flotsam from the sea and make a pathetic shelter. They find that ice ripped from boulders will do for water, that seaweed and mussels will keep a spark of life in bodies so frozen that toes fall off without giving pain. And when Chips, the ship's carpenter, dies, they find that his flesh can be eaten with an easy conscience, once they have decided to call it beef...
...Darren McGavin), who suggests that just one little fix is all he needs to get him round the bend. One fix leads to another, and another to another, until one day he is sitting in a cheap hotel with a price on his head and nothing to stop the pain of being alive. He begs a blonde tramp (Kim Novak) who loves him to get him just one fix. She refuses and pleads with him to give it up. He says he can't. It's easier to roll all the pain up into one big ball...