Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freeze-framing of physical gestures into their component parts traps and frees the subject. The stop-motion of Denise's bike ride locks her into a string of contortions but also celebrates her joy in movement. It prolongs and accents the pain of a woman's beating on a street corner but softens the blows by dissecting and punctuating them-turning the series of hurt faces into studied caricatures. Paul's slow-motion salutory kiss-which finally reaches his daughter's cheek-becomes at once a tortured eternity and a muscle spasm which lands like a hammer. It is clear...
...hopes of the Crimson gridders set with the sun, many Harvard fans felt little pain, as The Event carried a momentum of its own, spilling off the field and into the reunions, the parties, the bars. Yale was in town for its bi-annual visit, and if ever there was an excuse to make an absolute fool of yourself, this was it. Many of the Crimson and the Blue came through, admirably...
...There is humor in Chekhov, but it lights the interstices of his work, not the core. At the center is pain-of unrequited love, of oppressive boredom, of raw edgy nerves, of desolating aloneness...
Irish Playwright Hugh Leonard is a kind of family doctor among contemporary dramatists. He probes the aches and pain of a lifetime. Drumm (Roy Dotrice), the unheroic hero of A Life, whom we first met in Leonard's "Da, " is an aging civil servant with razor-blade lips and a cut tingly witty tongue. He is dying of cancer, and what he finds out in this play is that he has squandered his life by suppressing...
Perhaps, but Reagan's first priority will be to deal with some pressing economic problems. During the campaign, notes Chicago Economist Robert Genetski, "Reagan did not concentrate on the pain ahead. The necessary economic adjustment was underplayed, and 1981 is going to be rough." The new Administration, as Banker Rohatyn notes, will be "starting off with all the momentum going the wrong way." Instead of inheriting an economy that is expanding smartly, as he might have hoped, Reagan is faced with one that could plunge into recession again sometime this winter. At best, economists say, the prospect...