Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sanjay Mittal, a doctor at Hamidia Hospital. "In my opinion, this increases the chances of permanent mental retardation." One of Mittal's senior colleagues reported that there had been eight stillbirths at Hamidia on the first day after the accident. "Pregnant women were brought to me in great pain," he said. "They had to be aborted. Children in the womb had stopped kicking and bodies were rejecting fetuses...
Hoffmann's lively imagination reflects a keen understanding of children and an ability to make this perception appeal to all readers Marie is his special creation and he makes us feel her pain as the clock is stabbed by the clockmaker's tools. Within this sugar-puff setting, we appreciate the somber purity and beauty that Hoffmann so prizes. Only a hopeless romantic could create a nutcracker who addresses his lady in "a little bell like voice: Dear sweet Marie. Protectress mine. Thou standest by me and I'll be thine." And within the bizarre tale of Marie's adventures...
DESPITE these difficulties, though, Akalaitis presents a compelling version of this great play. It is funny, full of an ironic humor that makes its profundity palatable and insidiously convincing. It is frightening, describing a world that has run out of bicycles, sweet-plums, coffins, pain-killer, honor, time, and God. After a futile attempt at prayer, Hamm screams, "Bastard! He doesn't exist." It shows mankind, having walked to the edge of the plank, hesitate before the leap that threatens oblivion or promises a new beginning...
...January 1983, Schroeder's busy family life and career were disrupted by a massive heart attack, which seriously damaged his heart muscle and left him crippled with angina, or chest pain. Two months later he underwent double-bypass surgery...
...members of the Schroeder clan for a reunion at a local club. Although Schroeder played master of ceremonies and joked with his relatives, the gathering was a kind of farewell party. By this autumn, the once vigorous man was largely bedridden, unable to walk 20 ft. without chest pain and shortness of breath. At night, he would awake gasping...