Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Muddy likes to take it easy these days and the crowd was sparse, Spann did most of the singing. Spann lived a lot of his life in Mississippi and his singing and piano style reflect his past. His Southern accent is heavy and his voice is a mixture of pain and suffering--and the ironic sense of humor which is essential to the Blues. His style is relaxed and easy. One of his show piece numbers is called "My Home is in the Delta" and can be heard on his Bluesway Album, The Blues is Where its At; Spann sings...
...graduating to complicated sexual perversions in maturity, Portnoy himself can't reconcile the dichotomy between his public and private life. So--in helpless frustration--he turns to us, asking us to consider his role as "the smothered son in a Jewish joke," hoping that we'll recognize the inherent pain in the gag, "the part Sam Levenson leaves...
Except when partners are "severely alienated" or "deeply convinced that the other is mentally sick," Bach is certain that such passive and active hostilities provide man's rarest opportunities for forging real intimacy. "Authentic anger brings out truth," the authors write. "The pain of conflict is the price of true and enduring love. People simply cannot release all their love feelings unless they have learned to manage their hate." In group therapy with 250 pairs of pugilists, who paid $492.50 per couple for 13 "fight-training sessions" during the past six years, Bach has evolved a set of common...
...increases in corporate profits, returns on investment and wages. "If we do manage to restore relative price stability, it won't be painless," says Norman Robertson, economist for Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank. Inflation is so pervasive-and the task of stopping it so wrenching-that the pain is likely to be shared in some degree by almost every American...
...bleaker, more perceptive portrait of senility can ever have been written. Bruno wakes daily into pain. The small act of putting on his bathrobe must be thought out carefully in advance, as a gymnast plans a movement in a high-wire act. Bruno has become a monster and knows it. He lives for sips of champagne permitted him each evening and the exhilaration of using the telephone to call wrong numbers and know the thrill of human explanations and regrets. Murkily he perceives that death is a physical...