Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always imagined "hitting the wall" would be something like getting hit head-on by an oncoming truck. Well, it's not. An almost imperceptible pain begins to grow into an overwhelming, gnawing numbness--an exhaustion beyond words. We both realized that if we stopped, even for a minute, to stretch we'd never start running again. So stopping was out of the question. Just dogged determination, numbness and black thoughts all the way to the seemingly ever-receding Prudential Building...
...themselves against each other from the start: Pochoda's Matt is fidgety, defensive, and given to speechifying--his mouth seems to hemorrhage words. Plunkett's Sally takes a pose and holds it, folds her arms over her chest, and seems almost sullenly reticent--giving up words only with great pain. Their contrast, and their ability to paint the absent members of their families from a palette of human types, fills the rotting boathouse with a spectrum of human experience...
...truth and the keys to the future." When he marches with militant workers, he suddenly feels the weight of phylacteries in his knapsack, but his revolutionary fervor is seldom leavened by thought. It takes a phosphorescent, spectral figure to rekindle any moral sense. David Aboulesia, who mysteriously appears whenever pain grows too intense to bear, warns him, "If you believe you must forsake your brothers in order to save mankind, you will save nobody, you will not even save yourself." It is a bitter prediction: Kossover's return to faith is tragically late. Yet it is his testament that...
...refugee, but was, as long as the terror in Iran continued, an exile from his own land. The knowledge that nothing had changed in Iran, that if he were to return he would face the possibility of imprisonment and torture once more, burned within him, causing him more pain and suffering than the beatings or smoldering cigarette butts ever had. With their documentary Resident Exile, the team of Alexandra Anthony, Ross McElwee, and Michel Negroponte--all local fimmakers--have captured this pain, and have translated it into a technically excellent and uniquely relevant film...
...characters lead difficult lives trying to listen to these spirits that come from a collective past. Following the dictates of these voices keeps them close to a Black tradition that often becomes excruciatingly painful, no matter how hard they try to escape its grips. Their pain comes from their alienation, from never being considered anything but Black in a country like America, and the pain impels them to clutch hungrily at the spirits of Black folklore that live in their dreams, their songs and their stories. Morrison does not make Black life a retreat or an imposed exile from white...