Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...version of the book-overcome by her loss, but not immersed in bathos. From the coffin she took a lock of Kennedy's hair, writes Manchester, and as she left the East Room she was "swaying visibly." She righted herself and, "beyond consolation, wrenched by a torsion of pain," she managed to retain "the sense of purpose which had kept her going for two days...
...series progresses, hairy, obscene women with their skirts pulled down around their knees join in the orgy. Money flutters around them; gigantic vultures hover about them. Huge, grotesque babies' heads, their mouths distorted with pain, are superimposed on pages torn from the Bible containing wrathful Old Testament passages and stenciled with prison numbers. Naked cadavers dangle; a pregnant woman is crucified head downward...
...Gaulle's own pain was obviously far from unspeakable. Almost cheerfully, he pointed out that many of his losing candidates had been defeated only by the narrowest of margins. Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Mur-ville, for example, came within 235 votes of victory-and Couve had hardly been a dynamic campaigner. All in all, according to De Gaulle's calculations, a shift of 10,000 votes in the right places would have turned 35 Gaullist losers into winners. "That's not seri- ous," he told his Cabinet. "It is a situation that will redress itself...
...with Theologian John Eck at Leipzig, Luther blurted out: "A council may sometimes err. Neither the church nor the Pope can establish articles of faith. These must come from Scripture." Instead of offering him Biblical proof, Pope Leo X issued a bull demanding Luther's recanting-on pain of excommunication-that began: "Arise, O Lord, and judge thy cause. A wild boar has invaded thy vineyard...
Lessinger is excellent, but it is by no means a one-man evening. To an electric guitar throbbing out Beatles music, Colin Godfrey and Donna Jo Napoli give the excitement and pain of two bodies so close that they almost touch, much touch, but don't. As their hands near each other, they shiver with the electricity, then break away. The number falls just short of brilliance. At the last moment, the bodies intertwine, but the atmosphere is drained as the piece drags on a few seconds too long...