Word: painfulness
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...video monitor, two small marmosets - tree-dwelling South American monkeys with white ear tufts - cling tightly to each other, looking terrified. A third writhes in pain, postsurgery, on the floor of its cage; others have raw and bloody head wounds that seem crudely stitched up. The animals appear in a 21-minute exposé called Cutting Edge, shot for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in one of Cambridge University's neuroscience research labs. The monkeys' brains had been deliberately damaged in experiments meant to simulate the symptoms of stroke and Parkinson's disease. Important research that...
...accident links the lives of three people through a chain of pain, remorse and isolation. There’s Christina Peck (Naomi Watts), whose way of coping with tragedy leads her into a self-destructive bout with drugs and depression. Paul Rivers (Sean Penn) is always seconds away from cardiac failure and he desperately clings to any hope for life even as he takes long, painful drags from countless cigarettes. Then there’s Jack Jordan (Benicio del Toro), an ex-con whose fanatical love for Jesus—an obsession which reformed his criminal ways—will...
...bereaved mother, unrelentingly peeling back layer upon layer of unmentionable grief. Many of Watts’s best moments would’ve neared over-the-top drama in the hands of many other actresses, yet the camera’s unforgiving close-ups of her convincingly pain-distorted features aid in conveying a woman tinged by death’s aftermath...
...Crimson (4-3-1, 3-3-1 ECAC) faces off against Colgate tonight at Starr Rink before spending Saturday night inside the electrifying confines of Cornell’s Lynah Rink. Two Harvard victories would lessen the pain of last weekend’s home 3-0 loss to Clarkson and give its rather inconsistent record a much-needed shot...
...subjectivity of truth and the limits of one’s own perception. “My work is like a vaccination,” he says, “I try to introduce a virus of innocent hoaxes to provoke innocent reactions—the first reaction is pain, but it is good for the health...