Word: pains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Onassis and Sister Lee Rodziwill, former Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, Heiress-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt, as well as several other real people thinly cloaked in fictitious names. The author likened his gossipy story to a "minor pane" in a cathedral window. But many of his cronies considered it a major pain in the neck and accused Capote of betraying their confidences. "The reaction has been completely unjust," pouted Truman, 51, last week. "If I were not an extra-experienced, objective person, it would have crushed me." The uncrushed author is returning to Esquire this month with still another chapter from...
...taboo currently under the heaviest assault is sadomasochism?sexual pleasure derived from dominating and inflicting pain on a partner or from being hurt. Porn-film makers long avoided "S-M," as it is known in the trade, because they were convinced that it would drive away customers. Now even that is changing. In X-rated movies and throughout the world of voyeur sex, sadomasochism is in. Two current hits, the soft-core Story of O and hard-core Story of Joanna...
...question is, after all the pain and bad feelings, was it worth it? The answer is yes, and one reason for that answer is Redford. If he was never completely satisfied with any of his coworkers' contributions, he turned out to be a shrewd editor of their work, choosing from their offerings that which fitted?and expanded?his original conception of the film. He realized, for example, that Goldman was not entirely wrong when he perceived at the outset that the film required a leavening note of newspaper humor and camaraderie. The journalistic world is one where power asserts itself...
...ambition, Leicester serves both queens, only to betray each in turn; petty and cowardly though he is, his waverings also make him a tragic figure. Unfortunately, Hornblower chooses to portray the earl as a supercilious and excessively obvious double-dealer whose inward writhings cause him more annoyance than pain. Hand on hips, he delights in running his tongue over his lips in a gesture that reduces him to the level of a snake. It's hard to imagine what either queen could see in such an effeminate courtier...
...These new internal alarms are a real pain in the neck," Murphy said. Canaday is equipped with an automatic fire sensing and alarm system...