Word: stricken
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...presidential campaign has confirmed that the Vietnam War is still a touchy subject for many Americans. Davey (Abe Riesman ’08) is a bit more touched than most. Guilt-stricken over his country’s role in Vietnam, the blinded veteran decides to bring the truth of the war home to his complacent middle-class parents by teaching them what it’s like to be a Vietnamese peasant: he orders them to pick up grains of minute rice from the floor while his wife fires gunshots randomly into the air (shooting him in process...
...greatest moment of the exhibition is set at its extremity. Furthest from the entrance, as if deliberately hidden form the most ADD stricken of frivolous tourists, the democratized museum has brought us to a thoroughly different milieu. Here there is a comparison that sets before our very eyes the power and possibility of the media of print...
Less than a year later, Johnston and a small cast and crew were on location in Afghanistan, making September Tapes, a film about another American, grief-stricken ex-soldier Don Larson (George Calil), whose response to the attacks is to get in and document “the truth behind September 11” with a digital camera...
Gilmore’s predecessor Dan Allen spent most of the 2003 season on the sidelines confined to a wheelchair. Stricken with multiple chemical sensitivity after exposure to toxins at a construction site more than a year before, by the beginning of the season Allen was unable to walk unaided and eventually lost all mobility below the neck. Despite his debilitating condition, Allen remained at the position he had held since 1996, fighting simultaneously for his own health and his struggling Holy Cross team...
...ASIA INDIA: Stricken by flood and drought, the subcontinent desperately needs better ways to manage water...