Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...king, extinguished the sovereign, while one flaming courtier bit through the rope and dived "like a flaming comet" throught the window into a cistern in the court. The other four "whirled hither and thither through the horrified mob, struggling with one another, fighting with the flames, cursing, shrieking with pain," as Walsh describes it. Although the flames at last burnt out, none of the four maskers survived...
...mocking the past-mocking the angry radicals, mocking the dreamers, mocking the quest for visions. The audience is laughing with him. They are howling, but in pleasure rather than anger, as he thrusts an arm up for each of the jokes. They hear satire, not nobly expended pain, in these lines: ". . . who vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of ambiguous picture postcards of Atlantic City Hall"; "who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish"; "who drove cross country seventy-two hours to find...
...papery that they collapse; five vertebrae may fill the space normally occupied by three, causing a protuberance known as "dowager's hump." Says Eleanore Bennink, 73. of Southgate, Mich.: "I was 5 ft. 3 in. when it started. Now I'm 4 ft. 10 in. The pain was horrendous." The condition is prevalent among older women because their frames are smaller than men's and after menopause the ovaries cease to produce estrogen, the female hormone that plays an important role in the retention of bone. Normally the body forms new bone tissue as old bone...
...Explains Endocrinologist Dr. Michael Kleerekoper of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital: "The cancer produced by estrogen is curable. Osteoporosis is not. It's a trade-off." Adds Dr. Gilbert S. Gordan, professor of medicine at U.C.S.F. "What we are talking about is saving women a lot of pain and deformity and fracture...
...overpowering even when her acting skills are not. She is a master strategist of expression. Her voice has a narrow range, yet her use of it encompasses dismissive contempt, romantic yearning, intellectual excitement, absolute shock, quivering pain, girlish ardor and the unbridled anger of Zeus...