Word: torment
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...motorcycle on a breakneck run through the English countryside. Two boys on bicycles moved into his path. He swerved, flew over the handlebars and fell fatally to the road. Could it be said that in a final ironic effort to protect other's lives, Lawrence gained release from the torment...
...play that The Heiress seems to owe more to O. Henry than to Henry James. As a revival it must compete, too, with the memory of earlier incarnations, the 1947 play with Basil Rathbone and an oft-replayed movie starring Ralph Richardson as the coruscating father. The torment inflicted upon the daughter by the father can still stir old-fashioned pity, even in the age of women's lib, and the claustrophobic gentility of this 1850s New York home adds a note of melodrama...
...shortcomings of Pajaczkowski's Faustus are thrown into sharper relief by the masterful performance of Greg Landis as Mephistophilis. The embodiment of controlled torment, Landis remains sympathetic even while hissing damnation. When the memory of his own loss of grace moves him to warn Faustus of the devil's snares, Landis projects a dignity never fully attained by his victim...
...withhold the material on the grounds of Executive privilege. The Secretary, visibly upset and reacting strongly, said he regretted the committee's action, declaring it raised "serious questions all over the world about what this country is doing to itself and what the necessity is to torment ourselves like this, month after month." One of his top aides reported that Kissinger is feeling increasingly embattled and isolated, and is irked that the White House is giving him a minimum of support in this latest, potentially climactic clash between Congress and the Executive...
...happy a man to sing pain. A man who started his career back in 1962 and is just now cresting as a star, certainly deserves happiness. But most probably the crowd was too happy--happy getting it's money's worth from good music--to listen to pain and torment. In any case, the catharsis of Jimmy Cliff's music was lacking: the program was too easy and the audience too comfortable. "We sing a happy melody," says Jimmy Cliff, "but it's sad underneath." After peace and love was accepted and thrown back in approval, he (swallowed in dimming...