Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trapped middle-ager wants to flee, like Gauguin to the South Seas, but erstwhile bankers of 45 who desert their Parisian families and become great painters are one of a kind. To blunt the pain of reality, he slips a whisky bottle into his desk and nips at it. (Alcoholism climbs a steep 50% in the 40-60 group over ages 30-39.) His medicine cabinet begins to look like a pharmaceutical display, and he retreats into hypochondria. Indeed, the sense of being straitjacketed by fate may contribute sizably to the cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary attacks that increasingly fell middle-agers...
...back under the sole, and the front of the foot was drawn back toward the heel until the instep collapsed upward into a grotesque ball of bone. The process sometimes required four years to complete, and during all that time the foot suppurated and the girl lived in punishing pain. Sometimes a child died of gangrene or blood poisoning. At last, the foot was reduced to what foot fanciers called a "golden lotus"-a pale grub of flesh about four inches long, less than an inch wide, and arched "like a lady's eyebrow...
Paris has plenty of doctors-during daylight hours. From 8 in the evening until 8 the next morning, the doctors insist on their privacy; medical help becomes harder to find than a polite cab driver. To Parisians the scarcity has sometimes meant long hours of pain, or even death...
...with 13 gal. of water still in the hold. To the adventurer, the climax was the saddest part of the voyage. "Only twelve miles to go," he tells Tinkerbelle, whom he regarded throughout as "my dearest companion," and then he adds: "The thought brought on a faint stabbing of pain...
...George, the caustic, cynical master of revels, Burton is superb, shrewdly measuring out his powerhouse talent in a part written for a far less heroic actor. A muffled drum sounded against the din of crashing china, he joylessly endures pain and joylessly inflicts it with the hollow stare of a man so sick of life that he cannot even relish his final vindictive triumph...