Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson even rousted White out of bed at 5 a.m. one day to hear some points he was making on an early-morning television interview. During their final talk, on a flight to Washington last week, White took notes as Jackson "mused in obvious pain about what he considers unfair criticism from those who read his zeal to increase black political influence as a desire for personal gain. It was a rare introspective moment. After more than 20 hours of exclusive conversations, I felt that I had finally seen the core...
Their adventures are rough as they scratch and claw their way to the ranks of the in-crowd. Beresford lets on that this is only a phase the girls are experiencing, but he doesn't spare them any pain, as they deceive their parents, get suspended from school, and stagnate with their new friends...
...himself has moved out of his Park Avenue apartment, and is believed to be working out of the Zug offices. Two weeks ago, Clarendon sent out notices telling its customers it would conduct business as usual during the freeze, but since then Judge Sand has prohibited those reassurances on pain of further contempt citations...
...constant enemy in these stories is what one character calls "the normal pain of being alive." People go to abnormal lengths to evade it. But booze and drugs only postpone unhappiness, and possessions do no better. In Anna, an impoverished young man robs a drugstore and gets away wiih a little more than $2,000. He takes his wife to a local mall for a shopping binge: color TV, stereo, albums, vacuum cleaner. Later, the money almost gone, he regrets not stealing some drugs for resale as well as the money. His wife says: "There's too much...
...life. There is a pattern: the parents cannot pay back loans or cannot endure the financial pressures of their lives. One psychiatrist observes, "Japanese kill themselves for more or less altruistic reasons, not out of egoism or self-pity." And they kill the children to spare them the pain of growing up without their parents. Lately police have found dozens of bodies in the forests around Mount Fuji. People travel from all over Japan to commit suicide there. The place has been named "Suicide Forest." The police have posted blunt notices there that killing oneself is not romantic, that bodies...