Word: pains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head it off, say government leaders around the world (including OPEC leaders), is for the oil-importing nations to cut their consumption by 2 million bbl. a day. That would bring supply and demand into balance and perhaps stop the wild rise in prices. But how can the pain of a cutback?which inevitably will mean less production and fewer jobs?be shared equitably among consuming nations with widely differing economic needs...
...scene of despair follows: turmoil, pain, struggle, death, resurrection and death again. Tension radiates between the dancers and their audience. McGehee and the surrounding students follow the dancers' movements consciously and unconsciously with their own bodies. They live the dance. For many of the students, this is their first exposure to performance. Already, in one week, McGehee's vision and dynamic personality has led her students this far towards the creation of a dream...
...seeming success, the patient is never quite the same. The prevalence of divorce has had an incalculable effect on the fabric of U.S. society, but our playwrights rarely broach the subject. A notable exception is Oliver Hailey. His Father's Day examines the scar tissue of pain; yet his play is saturated with wry, bitchy, gallant and sex-laced humor, the kind of hilarity that rises from the ashes of despair...
Godot may or may not be waiting in the wings, but death is always imminent in Beckett. "Earth, the old extinguisher," Winnie says - the last resort for pain...
...example, the author's description of a "testimonial" by the Reverend Brother Daniel A. Torch, given one hot August Sunday at Brooklyn's First Baptist Church: "The South's heat soft in the body of his song . . . His voice wide as the sun, filled with pain. Crying for his dead brother...