Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chiseled jaw, tips his eagle-beaked profile toward the light, narrows his steely eyes and folds his arms akimbo. "'Hard' is what I do best," says the veteran actor, explaining how he poses for photographs. "I don't do 'nice.'" No matter that Heston is, in fact, in pain, only days away from a hip-replacement operation, and has been limping around his Beverly Hills home in stretch Speedo slippers. No matter that a toupee, capped teeth and a partly unbuttoned shirt reveal a touch of vanity. At 73, the man best known for playing prophets and warriors is embracing...
...just a "publishing phenomenon"; it shows that the American public is sick of having gore and mayhem shoved down its throat by the media. The Chicken Soup series creates an alternative to the usual media fare. We offer hope where there is despair, comfort where there is pain, tears and laughter instead of sarcasm and snide remarks, and inspiration to help our readers overcome the challenges they face. It's correct that our stories do not moralize, but it is wrong to say they provide "uplift without morals." PATTY HANSEN, Co-Author Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul Newport...
...News on Pain...
...cancer patients in nursing homes are in daily pain, the largest study of its kind concluded last week. And a quarter of them, largely minorities and the very old (85 and up), don't receive any pain medication at all--not even aspirin...
PAUL GILMARTIN, host of TBS's Dinner & a Movie: "Showgirls [1995] is the worst American movie, and the most entertaining. Also, Road House [1989; 7] is so bad it's good, especially when Patrick Swayze says, 'Pain don't hurt...