Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compounds the pain of the musical monotony with trite lyrics...
Inflation. Despite weak growth, price pain will abate only slowly, if at all. Through the year, the rate is forecast to drop from today's 13.3% to 10.4%. Even if that happens, the 1979-80 period will go into the record books as the first peacetime case of back-to-back years with double-digit inflation...
...what they are: Fred is a crude redneck, and Carol is his latest bimbo; Edgar is a spiritual cripple, and his wife Lucinda is an irritating bore. But everyone forgives Jo because she is visibly dying of cancer and is just radiating a part of her own intense pain. Jokes Edgar: "Any well-stocked larder should have ridicule and contempt...
...death. As Sam gives up his role as husband and protector, so he loses his identity. The shape of our lives, Albee is saying, is created by the needs of those around us. When those needs disappear, so, in a sense, do we. Jo's pain is physical and therefore transitory; Sam's is spiritual and therefore endless...
Life grows ever more complicated. Now it seems that the old song notwithstanding, it is impossible to be just a gigolo. This curious little movie actually persuades one to believe that male hustlers have feelings, problems and pain just like everyone else. That is no small feat, considering the attitudes one tends to bring to an examination of a gigolo's life and hard times...