Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must be contrasted to the jazzy emptiness of the women's lives. The plot must also be maneuvered toward a denouement in which Isabel gets the comeuppance that popular fiction always metes out to the emotionally blind. And poor Sophie, besotted by drugs and sunken to prostitution, must suffer, despite Larry's noble attempt at rescue, the instructive tragedy that popular fiction always awards the emotionally vulnerable...
...mystery of the Red Sea mines appears to be as close to solution as it is ever likely to be. Three months after ships traveling in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez began to suffer damage from unexplained explosions, the Egyptian government has concluded that the mines were 1) of Soviet manufacture and 2) almost certainly planted by Libya...
...survey found that women tend to suffer from phobias and depression, while men score significantly higher than women in the abuse of alcohol or dependence on drugs and in long-term antisocial behavior. When all disorders are taken into account, men and women are about equally troubled. Earlier surveys showed that women were more psychiatrically disabled and had more symptoms than men, possibly because women tend to seek help for depression and men tend to hide theirs with alcohol. The current survey found that women seek professional help twice as frequently...
...Quentin, Frank Langella at first seems too sensuous to be playing the kind of man who sins only so he can suffer. By the second act, however, when Quentin is mud wrestling with Maggie's demons and making them his own, Langella has captured the character's soul; he is stooped, obsessive, spent. As Maggie, Dianne Wiest is an inspired piece of miscasting...
Shklar's implicit message is just as interesting. Liberalism's opponents, she suggests, should not pretend to hold a monopoly on morality. While liberalism may suffer from its own delicacies, it is far from a moral free for all. She writes, "Liberalism is in fact extremely difficult and constraining--for those who cannot endure contradiction, complexity, diversity, and the risks of freedom...