Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...existential vacuum, a widespread sense that life has lost much of its meaning. Argues Philosopher Sidney Hook: "We have abandoned our old-fashioned values. We have given up our old gods. People want things to come easily, they no longer want to work hard, to suffer any pain, to feel any stress or anxiety." Since the turbulence of the 1960s, more and more Americans have come to feel that they have lost control over their lives. Finding Mom, God and apple pie less fulfilling, many have increasingly taken refuge in drugs, sex and disillusion...
...deal with a world that has never, and never will, appreciate them for the best they have given it. He also talks to celebrities, speculators, and hustlers of every variety. These individuals have usually deluded themselves, and though they blend from the delusion, though they cannot understand the pain. At last, McGee confronts, and deals with pure personifications of evil. In the process he relearns the old lesson--that close to the edge of death one is most completely alive...
...Superman. At the White House they receive an unconditional surrender from a cowering President (who looks alarmingly like Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee), and aided by the enterprising earth-bound villian, Lex Luthor, they set out to find the only being standing between them and a happy reign of pain and degredation...
...come two more. Space-Invaders wrist, described by Medical Student Timothy McCowan of Little Rock, Ark., is a painful stiffness resulting from "repeated prolonged playing" of the popular Atari video game. According to McCowan, himself a sufferer, rapid repetitive arm movement with much abrupt bending and twisting of the wrist and forearm are required to maneuver the spaceship. The second affliction was discovered by Dr. Richard Neiman of Sacramento and Susan Ushiroda of Portland, Ore., after examination of two women who complained of sudden pain in the right shoulder. Investigation revealed that their discomfort followed a weekend of gambling...
...make an extravagant musical number out of the Inquisition, a reprise of his famous Springtime for Hitler number in The Producers, is one of the worst calculated comic turns in movie history. We have no distance-not in our time-from the spectacle of people being subjected to pain for their beliefs...