Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failed novelist hitting 50 with a terrifying thud. His career has been sidetracked by illness and bile. His marriage to an actress (Janet Suzman) is just an awful memory. He lies in a London hospital with psoriatic arthritis, a crippling condition of the skin and bones. The pain and the pain-killers force Marlow's mind down strange old country lanes and treacherous culs-de-sac. Figures from the past make cameo appearances in his nightmares, and traumas from his Gloucestershire childhood mingle with the plot of his first novel, The Singing Detective. This time, he is the hero...
Examples of the former might be someone who wears cowboy boots in the summer time, what with the Greenhouse Affect and all, or a person who wears a beret, which is a pain in the ass, all the time, or anyone who wears a safety pin in his cheek, which is just plain painful, for any amount of time. On the same track, people who only wear light jackets in freezing weather, supposedly because they believe them-selves to be weatherproof but mostly because they are trying to be cool (both physically and mentally), are also representative of this sort...
...Bell's pain could become the consumer's gain, since the improvements may allow the company to keep lowering its toll charges. AT&T still commands 70% of the $50 billion long-distance market, but has grown increasingly price conscious in its rivalry with MCI and Sprint. Even so, the lateness of the move has shaken some investors' confidence in Ma Bell. Says James Meyer, a telecommunications analyst with the Philadelphia investment firm Janney Montgomery Scott: "My question is, Is this it? Or will we have to go through this again...
Mike Schmidt is still one of the game's greatest players. The shoulder and knee injuries which he has endured would have stopped most players cold, but he has played with pain for years. He knows he can recover from his surgery and return to the diamond in top shape--and the fans of Philadelphia believe in him. Instead of attacking Schmidt in the off-season, why don't we let him prove himself in the batter's box in April? Bridget Asay...
...weeks later, at Helen's house, the mushy things no longer suffice. The doctors have prescribed morphine for Denise's pain, and Helen has begun to sing, "Jesus loves me! This I know," as she rocks the child. "It's O.K. to go," she whispers. "These arms will hold you again." At a hospital soon after, with Helen and her husband and the birth mother all cradling one another and the child, Denise heeds Helen's sweet voice and dies...