Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie has no plot at all but several sub-plots, none of which ever develop into anything. There is a love interest between Motorhead Sherwood, an actor who appears to suffer from some brain malfunction, and a vacuum cleaner that isn't really a vacuum cleaner but is actually some guy dressed up like a vacuum cleaner who never talks but merely inhales. There is another guy who wears a nun's habit and is supposed to represent a groupie who has taken an overdose of barbiturates and ascends to Heaven. There is Jeff the bass player who drinks...
...Tekoah, Malik sarcastically asked why the Jews should be a "chosen people" who were "closer to God" than the rest of humanity. "This is religious racism!" Malik shouted. "Religious fascism!" Tekoah, trembling with rage, stepped to the rostrum. Jews, he said, indeed seemed to have been chosen-"chosen to suffer." In a telling swipe at his Bolshevik adversary, he noted that Zionists had been battling imperialism "long before the Russian and Ukrainian people were on the maps of the world...
...talks leading to a united Ireland. "Ulster is becoming Britain's Viet Nam," said Kennedy in a speech. "America cannot keep silent when men and women of Ireland are dying. Britain has lost its way, and the innocent people of Northern Ireland are the ones who now must suffer . . . The tragedy of Ulster is yet another chapter in the unfolding larger tragedy of the empire. It is India, Palestine, Cyprus and Africa once again...
Every occupation has its hazards. Miners are prone to anthracosis or "black lung," divers to the bends and tennis players to bursitis. According to Dr. Frank Gross of the U.S. Public Health Service, who describes his findings in the New England Journal of Medicine, many physicians suffer from a condition to be known henceforth as the Emperor's Clothes Syndrome...
...anybody out there listening? It's an away weekend, so supposedly all the sports fans made the long journey to Philadelphia yesterday. Away weekends are nice because I can pick Harvard to lose knowing that the morale of the team can't suffer if they still read the Crimson. I can even say something about my fellow Crimson sports-writers sitting next to me right now and they'll probably never go back to read about it Sunday after the long ride back home...