Word: painful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Pain in Louisiana's Capital...
...committed to a locked ward. Greenberg joined the ranks of huddled pilgrims who lined up every day for visiting hours. (One morning he took artichokes to Sally. "Art makes you choke, Father," she said. "You should give it up. It's a false god who causes you nothing but pain.") As Sally's life fell apart from the inside out, Greenberg's began collapsing from the outside in. He fought with his wife, Sally's stepmother. He drank. As a freelance writer, he had no health insurance; the first bill for Sally's meds came...
...enough to be disappointed by an event that chose Metallica and Pearl Jam as headliners, that it’s no surprise that the words “sellout” entered my mind on numerous occasions. Still, I can’t help but feel the dull pain of disappointment, as if catching the show this year, its sixth, was too late and the festival is now past its prime.I first heard of Bonnaroo in high school when one of my friends attended. He returned wearing tie-dye, telling tales of old hippies and jam bands, masses of acid...
...They write "important" plays about political issues or world-famous physicists or 19th century Russian philosophers. Ayckbourn's realm is smaller and more familiar - the domestic and romantic predicaments of modern, middle-class Brits. Yet no one has probed more acutely, or with a finer balance of laughter and pain, the sad human drama behind these tidy surfaces: the inability of people to connect, to see the casual cruelty they inflict on others, to come to terms with their failed illusions, to be happy. A woman's spoofy fantasies of a perfect domestic life turn into the chilling symptoms...
...that, no problem." A few weeks ago, though, Peralta noticed a change in the way his clients' feet moved. Customers began to say, "they can't talk right now, they have their mind on something else, or they just work on their BlackBerry," Peralta says. "It can be a pain for me, because when people are stressed or moody they tend to fidget and I have to grab their ankle to keep their foot still." In the days leading up to the Sept. 15 nosedive, and since, the clients still talking to him have all been asking the same question...