Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snake that striketh at the jeet of the hunter is naught but a pain in the grass...
...jaws as the ability to bite a piece of meat." Yet, adds Mailer, adversity seems to have mellowed, even deepened him. "The new Nixon had finally acquired some of the dignity of the old athlete and the old con -he had taken punishment, he knew the detailed schedule of pain in a real loss, there was an attentiveness in his eyes which gave offer of some knowledge of the abyss, even the kind of gentleness which ex-drunkards attain after years...
...rain added immensely to all the other pain brought on by civil war in the world's largest black nation. In an open truck near Owerri, rainwater seeped into a glucose bottle attached to the stomach of a chocolate-brown corporal identifiable as "Lucky Devil" from the nickname sewn into his bloody tunic. The truck, carrying a dozen wounded, had fallen into a culvert tunneled out by retreating Biafrans. Rain also slowed the stolid march of exhausted refugees from displaced minority tribes heading south from the fighting...
...When pain becomes a kind of agony only poison can cure." Their pain, her cure. Not in the taking of poison, but in the giving. I made them see their souls...
...most impressive of the lot. This is Actor John Cassavetes' second effort as both writer and director. He spent six months shooting the film-mostly in his own Los Angeles house-and almost three years editing it. The result is a 130-minute study of human pain, shame, cruelty and crudity of such abrasive intensity that it constitutes more of an experience than a show...