Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spoonfuls of grain a day. In one village on the eastern coast, a rice-processing mill has no rice, so it is making noodles from seaweed. Every tractor, truck, wagon and ox-cart has been mobilized to distribute food aid as it comes in. Still, the pain is spreading across this country of 24 million as unremitting hunger stalks the land. Li Han, a Chinese truck driver who crosses the frontier regularly at Guchengli, has watched it. "People over there are starving," he says, "in rural areas and in the cities. Even the soldiers are not getting good food...
...game for any outsize challenge, but her bantam desperation sounds shrill; at times she is overrun by the wild gestures that seize Maureen. Travolta, though, balances nicely on a seesaw of caring and exasperation; and Penn has every garish shade of Eddie in his palette. He gets the pain, charm and drive, the stumbling humor of a guy whose only religion is the woman who betrayed him. He turns a jerk into a heroic figure: St. Doofus...
...started out with an unspeakably horrible alleged assault on a single Haitan suspect in Brooklyn. Now it's gone Federal. The pain of 30-year-old Abner Louima, who says he was sexually tortured with a toilet plunger by police at New York's 70th Precinct, has been felt across the country. Today the Justice Department announced it would be stepping...
...pick up much of the business quickly. Indeed, as the strike wore on last week, America suddenly awoke to the crucial role of UPS as a hauler of goods with a dollar value equal to an astonishing 5% of the country's gross domestic product. So widespread was the pain that major retailers, who rely on UPS for supplies of fresh merchandise, urged President Clinton to intervene. But the President refused, saying the strike had not yet created a national economic emergency...
...everybody--well, nearly everybody--seems to feel the President's pain and has been making a concerted effort to distance the roles from any real-life counterparts. "I absolutely didn't want to do an impersonation," insists Thompson. "My character isn't Hillary; it's a composite of various people." "I'm not imitating anyone," contends Thornton, who went easy on the Cajun histrionics and even grew a close-cropped beard to differentiate himself from the jumpy, clean-shaven Carville. Adrian Lester, the young British actor whose pivotal role as narrator Henry Burton contains elements of Ron Brown and adviser...