Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freud said spiritualism was composed of illusions and wishful thinking. Lewis countered Freud's view of spiritualism by saying the spiritual world-view involves pain and despair, and is not wishful...
...Everett Koop, former Surgeon General of the United States, will respond to Wednesday's lecture on the Problem of Pain and Suffering, which will explore whether suffering and death are our destiny...
...what happens before the movie. Why can't it just be a book?" Morrison knows the page and the screen are only distantly related, especially in the adaptation of a novel like Beloved--dense, elliptical, teeming with allusion and metaphor, leaping from now to then and back again, in pain. Turning a book into a film, Morrison notes, is "an ongoing battle, between the images of language and the images of the image. That's what the creative process...
...Elise, a University of Minnesota graduate whose only previous feature was the femme-bonding comedy Set It Off, who is the headline find. Her Denver is alert both to the pain of being insufficiently loved and the frail promise life may hold for a young black woman after slavery. By the end of the film her posture has smartened, her smile is knowing; leaving the house, she becomes a freed slave, not unmindful of Sethe but unchained to her. If Beloved is to succeed with viewers, it will be in part because they recognize that the film belongs, eventually...
...BILLS WITH LESS PAIN...