Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which horror is simply a medium. Beneath the macabre lies a majestic conception of good and evil, a perceptive appreciation of human nature, and a basic understanding of fear as a primordial element of that nature. King could be an artist. With endless sessions of revision, a dash of torment and a bit of solemnity, king could, if he tried, be a serious artist...
...stations rather than the dignity of a colleague, or who terrorizes with a gun rather than a bullying personality, or who murders in fact instead of with gossip. Perhaps this is why Sy feels low, but not ignoble; the laws he breaks are on the books. Yet his internal torment is that of anyone who recognizes his own guilt and self-hate, who sees in Sy's black-brown eyes all the imprisonment of the species. It is doubtful that Sy realizes this. One thing a prison does naturally is to ostracize its residents, most of whom are bound...
...conclusions, or near conclusions, in the past week. Still, for several sides, things turned out pretty well. Britain closed in on Port Stanley, and won back the Falkland Islands. Israel closed in on Beirut, and may yet win safety for its northern borders. Lebanon, after its period of torment, may?with much luck and work?see its sovereignty restored. For its part, the U.S. has watched two allies come out on top in two displays of elegantly executed strategies. Better yet: the Soviets have been stung in Lebanon, the surface-to-air missiles they sold to the Syrians lying like...
...adulation of his more fervent admirers. What gave Nixon his driven quality was the titanic struggle among the various personalities within him. And there was never a permanent victor between his dark and sensitive sides. Now one, now another personality predominated, creating an impression of menace, of torment, of unpredictability and finally of enormous vulnerability...
During Nixon's final torment I often reflected on an event in the summer of 1970. On a Saturday afternoon the White House switchboard operator reached me at the hotel in Laguna Beach, Calif., that served as the press center. Would I like to drive with the President and Bebe Rebozo, his old friend, to Los Angeles? We could have dinner at Chasen's restaurant...