Word: paines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...compensates for the director's misunderstanding of grief. Although the actor's fine talents are sometimes obscured by the confusing intentions of the director and screenwriter, "Misunderstood" does offer, along with a glimpse of the spectacular geography of East Africa, a chance to watch the characters grapple with the pain of living after the tragic death of a loved...
THERE ARE A FEW SCENES in which the lines don't detract from the emotions the actors portray. As they flicker by. Thomas succeeds in delineating his pain. When he gets out of a shower, shivering and wet. he reaches out to an empty towel rack and he calls out "Mom, I need a towel" It is the fleeting moments like this that give the film its most potent and forceful moments. Unfortunately Schatzberg's attempt to create a collage of scenes in which Andrew and his father struggle with their loss is frequently uneven and ultimately unsatisfying...
...play's humor. Her cackling laugh and marvelous expression convey her character's wifty lunacy. Everything she knows she has learned from television; she rants and raves about the savagery of the Third World as she plans to boil her husband "like a lobster--lobsters don't feel pain." Guy Strauss as Mitch, the butt of most of these jokes, plays the vegetable (or lump, or carrot) brilliantly; when he begins to recover towards the end, his twitches and moans are appallingly funny...
...their families are clear. For instance, doctors at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix last week insisted that a court order be obtained before they would comply with an 83-year-old woman's wish to be disconnected from the respirator that was keeping her alive and in pain. Nearly three years earlier, the woman had drawn up a "living will," a document that requested hospitals not to prolong her life by extraordinary measures. Because Arizona does not recognize such a will (15 states and the District of Columbia do), doctors did not want to take legal responsibility...
...Faulkner Summers. Sensibar's find will be published by the University of Texas Press next month. Faulkner's opinion of himself as "a failed poet" is unlikely to be challenged by the volume's 14 linked poems (sample: "The wind grows louder about me, shrill with pain,/ And blows the petalled faces from my heart"). But scholarly assessments of the novelist are already being revised to include a deepened appreciation of the poetic influences on his prose style...