Word: painfulness
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...recommendation of his doctors, he moved from Paris to the dry climate of Provence, where, like so many other artists, he found a personal paradise, a garden tended by ghosts of the ancient Mediterranean. His was a farmstead in Cagnes-sur-Mer, not far from Nice. Though in constant pain, Renoir entered the most productive period of his career, producing hundreds of canvases, many of them painted while he could barely grip a brush...
...with the artistic tradition in which these poets are situated, a tradition of involved artists who could take as their motto these words of compatriot Allen Ginsberg: “I’ll do the work—and what’s the Work? To ease the pain of living/ Everything else, drunken dumbshow...
More than a month after his crushed left leg was amputated just above the knee, Gedeon Ralph Mary, 23, still cries. Not from the physical pain, which has long since subsided, but the agonizing thoughts of the outcast existence amputees so often face in Haiti. "Look at it!" says Mary, who survived a pancaked building in the Jan. 12 earthquake, as he throws a blanket off the bandaged stump of his limb inside the University of Miami's Medishare tent hospital at Port-au-Prince's Toussaint Louverture airport. "People are going to think I'm a freak. I wanted...
...over that steroid drops would make it worse. Instead, in addition to dozens of antibiotic and antiviral drops, the doctors in Jakarta "cleaned" my eye by scraping off a layer, hoping a new layer would grow over the damaged center that was now exposed like a scraped kneecap. The pain that ensued once the anesthetic wore off was like having shards of glass driven into my eye, yet it could have been mitigated with a bandage lens - a protective contact lens with no power, which I also never received...
...rather than increase the sales tax. But all Greeks are likely to feel the pinch in some way. The fact that many families usually rely on a variety of sources of income (including untaxed or black-market work), and because many own their own home, may help blunt the pain. (See "Greek Tragedy: Athens' Financial Woes...