Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...girl (she was 55 at the time), no delicate sylph. She did not even pose for her most famous painting; the figure's torso is Betsy's. But the work was honest in its essentials, and it established Wyeth's world as a place of physical grandeur and psychic pain. No wonder Betsy compares her husband to Ingmar Bergman. The American painter and the Swedish filmmaker are both stern visionaries whose art is based not on effusion but on reduction -- experience purified, like the flayed skin of a penitent. Both document man's spiritual solitude. Both listen for the eloquence...
...think seriously about quotas or face the prospect of almost bottomless oil prices. Before last week's agreement, some experts were predicting a price of $6 per bbl. by the end of the year. Says Sanford Margoshes, who follows the industry for Shearson Lehman Brothers: "Producers have suffered exquisite pain, and pain makes one wise." Arnold Safer, an energy consultant based in Bethesda, Md., believes "it was a do-or-die situation in Geneva...
...tissue damage that can lead to gangrene and amputation of the affected limb. But as reported in the July 26 issue of the Lancet, a British medical journal, Guderian has successfully treated 34 Ecuadorian Indians with electric shocks over the past six years, without apparent side effects or lingering pain from bites...
...about whether there should be a moratorium on permanent implants of the Jarvik-7 heart. Though Schroeder lived a record 620 days -- almost a third longer than Artificial Heart Recipient Murray Haydon, who died in June -- it was a seesaw survival that mixed moments of triumph with stretches of pain and anguish for both him and his family. "It's incredible how many times he had medical complications that would have finished a normal person," says DeVries...
...movie's ending is its greatest diappointment. It builds to a series of fast-paced dramatic scenes, full of blood and violence and disappointed love, but than deflates all of the fear and pain and passion by killing off the bad guys and letting the good guy--George--just get up and leave...