Word: painful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Business is fighting Question 1 not only in anticipation of the $265 millions shift, but also in hopes of a second cut--when homeowners start feeling the pain of 100 per cent valuation with tax hikes in the thousands of dollars, they'll descend on city halls throughout Massachusetts and demand budget cuts and tax rollbacks, and business will get the benefits of that...
...duty of the U.S. Government to indemnify its citizens fully for the amount of their pain, suffering, financial loss and legal expenses. No government worth its salt can fail to protect its citizens' rights in cases where there are disputes with foreigners...
...once unspeakable in their brutality and incomprehensible in their mindlessness. In the hands of Parker and screenwriter Oliver Stone, Billy Hayes is transformed into an Everyman-type hero coping with the erosion of his identity in a nether world of sadism, greed and madness. No emotion goes unexplored, no pain is spared, and in the end, no victory is denied. Therein lies the genius of Midnight Express, a Film so devastating in its momentary power yet so delicate in its final beauty...
...INTERVIEW reprinted by the Welles Theater, Fassbinder discusses Herman's mid-life crisis and "painful search for something that moves." It sounds great on paper, but I don't see it in the movie. I see an elegant, poorly thought-out but often very fascinating film of Despair. Nabokov pulled off a miracle in his novel: we stood outside Herman Hermann and still felt his pain; we experienced his warped vision and still perceived pieces of reality. But neither Nabokov's lucidity nor his despair have made it to the screen...
...library and building at the Kennedy School are public affairs institutions. The pain and suffering Charles Engelhard caused in his private pursuit of wealth contradicts the sensitivity the public person or institution must have to ethics. Witness the sympathy with the demonstrators by the public figures (Senator Kennedy, Mrs. Onassis and Senator Brooke), present at the school's dedication. Engelhard is not perceived as an ethical public figure by the Kennedy School Community, by the Harvard community or by the world at large and thus has no place as a symbol of achievement on the walls of the school. Public...