Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jaye Davidson, 25, now must suffer the intrusion of instant celebrity. Davidson worked in fashion (including a stint for Princess Di's couturiers) and had never considered acting before Jordan's casting director saw star quality in Jaye's careless beauty and recommended a screen test. "I hope it doesn't sound arrogant," the new screen sensation says, "but I wasn't scared. When I was told I had got the part, I just put the phone down and laughed my head off. But when I saw the whole script, I thought, dear God, how am I going...
...Swedish whore with a heart of gold, this 1921 sea wheeze contains a corrosive third-act face-off that helped O'Neill win the second of his four Pulitzer Prizes. Yet the play was criticized so widely for its optimistic ending -- unthinkable in high drama, where everyone must suffer, especially the audience -- that O'Neill felt obliged to declare he was misunderstood. In fact, he had been found out: without the scaffolding of tragedy, his stagecraft was exposed as ramshackle, his creatures as puppets. Though producers drag Anna Christie out of the closet every decade or so (for Ingrid Bergman...
OCCASIONALLY, GREATNESS EMERGES FROM THE commonplace. Scientists have found that an ordinary food additive may help people who suffer from sickle-cell anemia, the inherited illness that afflicts up to 100,000 black Americans. A preliminary study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that butyrate, a widely used flavor enhancer, can overcome the basic cause of the disease. A genetic flaw leads the body to make abnormal hemoglobin, the blood protein that carries essential oxygen...
Current smokers were found to be more than two-and-a-half times more likely to suffer a stroke than those who had never smoked. Researchers concluded that after quitting, smokers' additional risks disappeared within two to four years...
...America, political movements need to police their extremes. Conservatism is no exception. It is a matter not just of principle, but of practical politics. Unless conservatism is prepared to divorce itself from its extremists, it will suffer the taint. As it suffered in 1964 when Barry Goldwater declared famously that "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." That welcoming nod to the John Birchers and other right-wing nuts convinced millions of Americans that Goldwater and his party were not fit to govern...