Word: pains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have the right touch to turn it into a beautiful thing." The 250-Ib. sybarite, who learned how to make ravioli from Sophia Loren while shooting Man of La Mancha in Rome five years ago, adds ?with a touch of sage: "For me, cooking and eating ease all pain. When I am unhappy, I cook and eat. When I am happy, I cook and eat as a celebration...
...observation, Zeman, 32, crowds a barren stage with children growing up, leaving, marrying and having children of their own, of a husband's ordeal by alcoholism and his conquest of it, of Emily's witnessing her small son being crushed by a truck. The true protagonists are pain, humor, fury, the terrors of aloneness, a remembrance of good sex past, and an abiding perception of love amid its ruins...
Once convinced that in Jesus Christ "myth became fact," Lewis turned to convincing others. Two of his books as amateur theologian put many professionals to shame: The Problem of Pain (1940), an explanation of how a benevolent God can permit evil to exist; and Miracles (1947), a case for the plausibility of the supernatural. In The Screwtape Letters (1942), his witty little classic, Lewis has a veteran devil advise on how to ensnare souls for "Our Father below." Small sins were often best. Quoth Screwtape: "Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest...
Tuomo Kerola eases the pain of Ted Fullerton's graduation by beefing up the breaststroke corps. Kerola, a member of the Finnish Olympic team, was an All-American in 1976 as an exchange student at Hinsdale (III.) High, where he teamed with Harvard sophomore standout Matt Robertson...
...psychiatrist, Sexton began to write verse. What started as therapy quickly became a craft, a vocation and a career. Her letters frequently refer to poetry as her life saver, but elsewhere she sees her work as appalling in its blunt candor. "Creative people must not avoid the pain that they get dealt," she writes an editor. "I say to myself, sometimes repeatedly 'I've got to get the hell out of this hurt' ... But no. Hurt must be examined like a plague...