Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assert that I don't need anyone; namely, that the "hermitization" of students at Harvard is such a blissful respite from pain, suffering and self-destructive behavior that the College is granting me a service not providing activites...
This week Peninsula was back in the news, but for a peculiar reason: that is the very fact that it has been absent from the news for so long now. We at Dartboard know the pain of trying to stir up controversy but being met only with apathy, so we have decided to help out our partners in provocation. We propose to provide Peninsula with recrimination welfare; no publication should be denied at least a subsistence level of rhetorical counterattacks...
...almost as confusing as it is melodramatic, particularly when improbable, Dickensian coincidences and secret character connections begin to surface after the 90-minute mark. The characters are developed only enough to continue the simplistic plots, leaving little desire to empathize with them. In a movie devoted to the pain and pleasure associated with love, an emotional connection between the audience and the characters must be established and strengthened throughout the film. But the multiple jumpy, unrelated stories show only brief glimpses into the relationships, which prevents viewers from ever becoming involved in the amorous affairs...
...Nova," bookending a sequence of 32 inter-locking poems. It is a deeply reinforced whole--one of the last poems likens grief to the dark wood of a lute, referencing and earlier poem, "Lute Song," in which Gluck discusses the construction of the "overwhelmingly beautiful" out of "terror or pain." All of the poems address the problem of a new life, and the more obscure ones benefit from their embedment in the Vita Nova sequence...
...course, in certain less-focused instances, rage can also earn you a bitchin' toothache, as Thomas has experienced. "It's all better now, though," he said. "I could brush yesterday morning without excrutiating pain...