Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After surrendering a leadoff home run to first baseman Peter Aswad and a single to centerfielder Dave Lewis, Duffell clutched his right elbow in pain and had to give way to junior Derek Lennon...
...Terry: "We weren't able to give the jurors any kind of picture of who Tom was, what he was going through." A documentary filmmaker, Terry Youk recalls his brother's description of the agony: a "body plugged into an electrical socket." It was, says Terry, "the kind of pain that medicine couldn't help." "I don't want to die," Tom had said, "but I don't want to live like this." And the choice? "The family didn't make the decision," says Terry. "My brother did." Says Melody: "He did not want to become a prisoner...
...does have scattered moments of glory. The opening cut, Tender, is one of the album's best; it's an unexpectedly openhearted pop anthem, buoyed by a gospel chorus. Another standout song is Coffee & TV, a mellow, midtempo rocker. Blur can be a painfully smart band, and in these few songs, we come into palpable contact with its restless intelligence. However, much of the rest of the album is unfocused and fuzzy. Reportedly, some of this album was inspired by lead singer Damon Albarn's breakup with his longtime girlfriend, Justine Frischmann of the group Elastica. "It's over...
...markets become saturated, businesses reduce their investments, setting in motion a dangerous cycle: less investment, fewer jobs, less consumption and even less reason for business to invest. The economy may reach perfect balance, but at a cost of high unemployment and social misery. Better for governments to avoid the pain in the first place by taking up the slack...
...this Swiss-born psychiatrist, death was medicine's dirty secret. American doctors, she learned early on, rarely discussed the subject with the terminally ill, and the idea of administering pain killers or letting patients die at home or with their families around them was almost unheard of. Determined to overthrow this taboo, she interviewed hundreds of dying patients, sometimes in the presence of startled medical students. Her best-selling 1969 book, On Death and Dying, detailed her now popularly accepted conclusions. The dying, she wrote, go through five psychological stages: denial ("No, it won't happen"), anger ("Why me?"), bargaining...