Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing about these Southern Writers, of course, is their fabulous underdog literature--a result, popular psychology goes--of the pain and trauma of the Civil War--a regional bad childhood which now, over one hundred years later, still finds expression in the airless vaults of literature. There's Thomas Wolfe and Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy and that huge shadow which is Faulkner. Southern Writers are supposed to be totems of our national pain, and to question their existence as a group becomes something of a sacriligious act. We need this "South" for reasons which are deeply buried. We need...
Cancer patients can legally obtain purified marijuana to lessen the nausea and vomiting often caused by chemotherapy and avoid the dangers Kagan described. But patients in pain often seek the drug elsewhere and "must assume special risks" because their immune system has been weakened by other drugs, Kagan said...
...least $500 million in the black by 1983, and Louisiana anticipates a $1 billion surplus by then. Yet even well-to-do states may feel squeezed as Reagan begins to reduce federal spending on social programs. For states already suffering, Reagan's slashes will inflict only more pain...
Newman's at his very worst, though, when the film comes to its tragic, anti-climactic ending, wherein fate's final cruel blow devastates Murphy. Newman staggers, he pounds on furniture, his face scrunches up and turns red--he's in pain. He's trying hard, but he just can't do it, Newman can't cry on camera. He finally turns his back to the camera, bangs his head against the wall and fakes some pathetic sobs...
...reapplied to other cancer patients. But in his own case, Howe feels that sports offered him some tangible goals towards which to strive, and that his setting of those goals helped him realize he had control over his own life. "Once I decided on a goal, the pain became incidental," Howe says, drawing an analogy between sports and his life. His pursuit of achievement, Howe believes, helped him overcome his temporary pain...