Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home. Others argue that the film is serving a legitimate therapeutic function. "We're in the process of assimilating Viet Nam into our American experience," says Henry Graff, professor of history at Columbia University. "Pictures like Rambo allow us to think it through 20 years later without the pain of the casualty lists before us." Stallone is impatient with critics who call the film reactionary. "So it's a right-wing fantasy," he says. "Like Valley Forge. They did it their way, too, against the British. No one told them from Washington how to fight. This is the point: frustrated...
...wholesale death. The 600 men and women -- fire fighters and police, civil-defense officials, county sheriffs and physicians, scholars and sellers of all kinds of odd equipment -- came for four days of shoptalk at the first World Congress & Exposition for Disaster & Emergency Management. They came to chat about "pain management" and "grief work," about every kind of horror, about all the most public and spectacular ways...
Gorbachev declared that the time had come to "literally rap inefficient executives on the knuckles." One of the first to feel the pain was Victor Fyodorov, 73, Petrochemical Industry Minister for the past two decades, who was taken to task for a "careless attitude." The General Secretary noted sarcastically that Fyodorov had promised "that he would rectify his shortcomings. But evidently he does not keep his promises." The party Central Committee, Gorbachev declared, "has given instructions that the matter should be thoroughly investigated." Few doubted that the veteran bureaucrat was being invited to consider clearing out his ministerial desk...
...relentless, poignant footage of families awaiting word from Beirut the least important aspect of television coverage but the most damaging. The episodes of joy and pain strike a sensitive chord with the American public sustaining the story's emotions pitch--and the terrorists' influence...
Each exertion, I soon discovered, each surge of blood through my veins, triggered a fresh torment to my nose. Every time I gave myself the pleasure, a thump of pain brought me back... I smiled painfully. "Feels great," My nose not a nose, but a raw pulsing nerve...