Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think she's somebody capable of that level of manipulation," Sullivan said. "She was obviously a person in distress, a woman in obvious pain...
...hotel seems unfixed in time as well as place. Instead of a history it has a tradition of sumptuous meals, sleigh rides, and genteel conversation. The guests, too, seem determined to erase their pasts, or at least alter them so as to erase some present pain. The deepest, darkest secret is Mrs. Cendrars', it seems, and the revelations in the dessert room all might be part of a nightmare dreamed by her, growing from her secret...
...There's a danger in aestheticizing unnacceptable things because when you turn pain into a work of art you make it acceptable, like watching a war on television...
Student Five: I'm the guy who is actually interested in the material. I'm a real pain in the neck to everybody else because I occasionally inject meaningful statements into the discussion, forcing specific and relevant conversation. I am despised by the "arguer" who often gets trapped by my tendency to direct the conversation towards what is important. Some call me a "geek" for my actions...
Another cotton robed figure circulated with a brass collection plate, on which was mounted a flaming stick of some incendiary religious material. As the plate passed crowd members, hands were passed through the flame then rubbed against foreheads. Anticipating either pain or epiphany, I followed suit, and succeeded in doing nothing more than raising my body temperature--part flame, part Episcopalian embarrassment...