Word: pains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mitchell occasionally explored extended instrumental sections. "Paprika Plains," a 16-minute song that occupies the entire second side of Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, is her longest and most exhausting instrumental effort to date. This song is a reverie, set in a late-night doper's fog, recalling the pain and sweetness of childhood and varied impressionistic scenes of her youth. Mitchell comes close to the warm chords she used in earlier pieces, like the instrumental break in "Down To You," (Court and Spark) but there is a constant tension beneath the surface, a dissonance that colors the music...
...lasted from seven hours to almost six days. In the meantime they suffered the predictable effects of excessive radiation exposure: vomiting, diarrhea, loss of hair. Despite this, Lieut. Colonel William J. McGee of the Defense Nuclear Agency has declared: "To the best of our knowledge, the animals experience no pain from radiation experiments." Charles McPherson, head of the rhesus monkey certification program, insists: "What the armed forces were doing met the definition of medical research. There certainly wasn't any weapon used; the monkeys were simply exposed to radiation...
...there, and having realized that there are many perceptions of reality, there's no more urgency to explore any one reality like it's the answer, the truth. Everyone's always looking for the truth. The truth is there is no truth. Everything's constantly changing, and the pain from existence seems to come from clinging to some concept of truth or reference point...
...performance footage intercut with this material is rather perfunctorily and inelegantly shot. One suspects that Soviet authorities, not wanting the world audience to get the impression that the kids are a sweated artistic proletariat, forced the documentarians to avoid any overt suggestion that there might be more pain, narrowness of intellectual focus and disappointment in the children's lives than is shown in this overly sweet film. It is assuredly a harmless way to pass a rainy weekend afternoon with one's own kids, though the commercially made and fictional The Turning Point, for all its melo drama...
Blanton is knowing in the uses of loneliness. He suffers pain and disappointment without the crutch of self-pity There are always whisky and opportunities to commit mayhem in the name of cowboy justice. When a cow in Blanton's charge is gang-raped by three bulls from a neighboring ranch, Henry and his boys fall on them with castrating knives. But when Blanton's boss breaks a promise that could lead to a measure of financial independence, Henry submits in proud silence...