Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pain of Love)-promise the band at its naughtiest and nastiest, but Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are delighting here in twisting their band's carefully cultivated bad-boy image into a tight knot. All the Way Down takes a typically randy, amoral Stones musical protagonist and sets him up against a woman who is more than just his match. Undercover is a rough-and-tumble reminder that, as Jagger sings in It Must Be Hell, "The strength of darkness still abides...
...some White House aides, trekking to the relatively tranquil Far East was an unwelcome diversion from these more pressing concerns. Groused one Reagan lieutenant: "It's a real pain." But there was cogent reason to demonstrate U.S. solidarity with allies that it can count on. The Reagan Administration in addition hoped that the prod of the presidential visit would prompt some action on the serious trade disputes between the U.S. and Japan, and in that respect Reagan could claim some accomplishment before Air Force One even landed at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. In advance of the trip, Japan...
...mistakenly pick him up in drag and beat him, he crawls into a coffeehouse and begins a new form of theater with two speed freaks, becoming a caricature of himself. Ronis' performance is the most striking, strong enough to steal the stage, yet held in check. We feel his pain. And the strength of his portrayal is rivaled by that of a method one heroine addict named Mark (Harold Langsam), fresh from the Vietnam War. Langsam has a natural twitch that seems to come right out of the plastic bag of drugs he smiles for at the show's beginning...
...enough; while the symbolism and open sexuality of the Male and Female Mask is striking and effective, the closing of the semi-circle of cast members into a circle, which now excludes the audience, isolates and distances spectators who before had been drawn into the circle of Yerma's pain...
...influences until there are only subtle suggestions of it in the delicate frill of a classical guitar and the fringed shawl that Yerma drapes over her head. And in this he excels; the villagers could belong to any village. Juan's possessive sisters to any brother and Yerma's pain to any women...