Word: paines
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Physical and emotional pain became Kahlo's principal subject. She painted herself skewered, split, trussed and as a deer bristling with arrows. She was no sentimentalist. In 1938 Clare Boothe Luce, then managing editor of Vanity Fair, asked Kahlo to paint a memorial portrait of a friend who had jumped from a New York hotel window. The artist complied with a depiction of the woman simultaneously leaping, falling and finally lying dead on the pavement...
...surface. Against Michael Anania's stark, hospital-green set. Montgomery delivers Jackson's graphic descriptions of horrific war scenes in a voice which goes flat whenever his emotions threaten to take over. His face becomes an artistic canvas, simultaneously evoking the moral desolation of a Hopper cityscape and the pain of a Munch woodcut. His continual taking of breathmints suggests that nothing can serve as a palliative for getting the horrible taste out of his heart and soul...
...controls such involuntary actions as the heartbeat and the body's response to stress; of arterial disease; in Stockholm. Von Euler's research led to the identification of a number of so-called transmitter substances, including polypeptides, which appear to be the agents that deliver messages of pain to the brain...
...dignified, respectable, even attractive? Koestler's effusion in the how-to book for which he wrote the preface was characteristic of the movement's publications: "The prospect of falling peacefully, blissfully asleep is not only soothing but can make it positively desirable to quit this pain-racked mortal frame...
...designed only for the use of hopelessly sick people, with the express purpose of reducing, as the British guide puts it, "the incidence of unsuccessful attempts." A Guide to Self-Deliverance is heart-wrenching reading. The manual stresses that suicide should be a last resort for those in intractable pain. It then offers the exact doses of drugs that will ensure death. The manual recommends that the drugs be used in combination with other methods, such as plastic garbage bags and auto exhaust. If the prescriptions are carefully followed, the end will presumably be painless and "the body when found...