Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Only because I wept so for John Kennedy, I have not enough tears to weep for Bobby Kennedy, for Martin Luther King, for the young men in Viet Nam, for the poor, for President Johnson and those others who today bear such heavy burdens and who, while still living, suffer character assassination. Or to weep for those of us who mistake anarchy for dissent and free speech or violence for justice...
...super-famous flit mindlessly from pleasure to pleasure in ever-tightening circles that lead to self-destruction. With pagan innocence, Melinda herself commits incest, adultery, child neglect, international outrage and multiple murder. Because she is not a character, but the author's representation of nascent id, Melinda cannot suffer hell and damnation. She must be ticketed to limbo on a Russian moon rocket that gets irretrievably rutted in orbit around the earth. There she joins the other pieces of spent, sophisticated junk beeping and squealing their Muzak of the spheres...
...breed of writer) named Paul Dehn, who based his freewheeling lyrics on Chekhov's farce. Walton's eclectic styles are more than equal to the idiotic but entertaining plot about Popova, a widow who so enrages a creditor that he challenges her to a duel, but they suffer the fate of operatic lightning-love and fall into each other's arms. The work is laced with musical and verbal wit. Widow Popova's complaints about her dead husband ("What could a poor, weak woman do / But humor his caprices,/ When acts more suited...
...cost of his merciless goading. As a mainstream tough-and-rumble military movie, The Devil's Brigade-which is based on actual events-offers few new sights or insights. After nearly three decades of World War II films, it is hardly surprising that Hollywood is beginning to suffer from combat fatigue...
Cars are further slowed by full fuel loads. The turbines are vulnerable to this to the same degree that piston cars are, but since they run on kerosene in racing and qualifying, they suffer no speed loss due to fuel changes. Leonard and Pollard can turn laps at over 169 mph with full tanks, while a piston-powered car would be lucky to run within five mph of that...