Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...films like Amistad, slavery is used as a visual bulldozer, meant to overwhelm viewers through its shocking brutality and painful inhumanity. In Beloved, the highly-anticipated adaptation of Toni Morrison's lauded Pulitzer Prize winning novel, slavery is explored in a much subtler, almost metaphorical fashion. It is an exercise in psychology, exploring the mind of Morrison's steel-willed protagonist Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), a former slave who now lives as a free woman in Ohio in the 1870s. Sethe is a strong woman of fierce determination but she is haunted, both literally and figuratively, by the pain and horror...
...Basquiat fan who is willing to disregard Hoban's lack of knowledge about art, or to the fan of the 1980s who enjoys tales of decadence and back-stabbing. Yet, the book remains frustrating, not only because of its superficiality, but because of its flippant disregard for the pain that Basquiat's associates and supposed friends obviously caused him. Unfortunately, Hoban manages to depict Basquiat as both a "victim" and a monster, without touching upon "the real danger of Basquiat right...
...Bacharach condense the touching inability of the narrator to reconcile his traces of love with the reality of heartbreak. The lyrics convey the narrator's simultaneous rage at his lover's silent suffering and at his own obliviousness. This is the roughness of love: its strange contradictions, its pain and its insensibility. Similarly poignant and delicate expressions distinguish the album as a whole, full of songs about the attempt to reconstruct love from fragments from the past, from dreams and objects--truly, as the album title suggests, painting music out of the haze of memory...
...been anything but quiet. She divorced her husband and longtime producer Larry Klein and was reunited with her long-lost daughter, whom she had given up for adoption in the early '60s. Yet on her new, unsatisfying album Taming the Tiger, she seems unable to explore these fields of pain and affection. When she meditates on issues of loss and redemption in the song "Man From Mars," for instance, she doesn't delve at all into this tumult of her recent times. Instead, she talks about her cat. While her cat (painted by Mitchell on the album art) does inspire...
Four of Harvard's best chess players squared off in front of Au Bon Pain in an effort to "kick the Chessmaster's ass." Whether that occurred remains to be seen, as the series of games ended in a draw...