Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opened this month, the clinic employs a technique developed in the mid-1950s by Professor Ockert S. Heyns (pronounced Haynes), 61, of the Uni versity of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Heyns, seeking means of relaxing and stretching abdominal muscles during labor to reduce the pain of childbirth, hit upon the notion that a reduction of atmospheric pressure outside the abdomen might help. According to him, a woman's uterus pushes forward and changes shape from oval to nearly spherical during labor contractions. But often, he explains, the muscles of the abdominal wall interfere with this transformation, causing...
Later he made his first two big recordings for Soul Records: "Pain in My Heart," and "These Arms of Mine." With these two hits, and a lot of "pap-pap--pap" movements, Redding began touring the big Eastern stops...
...Death. The police pursue them relentlessly and, during one ambush, Buck's skull is split open by bullets. Blanche, wounded in one eye, turns into a shrill animal, incoherently rending the air with screams. Buck thrashes in agony, like a blind bull pierced with sword thrusts. Pain becomes palpable, and the actors became horribly real as the screen turns as bloody as a slaughterhouse floor...
...raises a question of moral ambiguity that runs through the play: Is this a war for a strumpet, or is it against a nest of barbarians who threaten the life of Greece? Euripides refuses to fob off the playgoer with an easy answer, for the question is fraught with pain and death...
...brings to Iphigenia is something that seldom exists on any stage: the adrenal flow of a mother's love and grief. When Clytemnestra learns that Iphigenia cannot be saved, she utters a howl of desolation that seems to be torn from her womb, as if a cycle of pain that had begun with the child's birth were ending. She is all mothers in the unbearable hour of loss...