Word: tormenting
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...conspiracies. For example, one item from the Is Dis a System? Department told how Blue Cross and Blue Shield recently decided to limit coverage for radical mastectomies because more women were now requesting them. The presentation seemed to imply that the administrators of Blue Shield were consciously out to torment women...
...weak by the strong. The two poems reprinted here, "No Return" and "Goodbye", exemplify both aspects of the revolutionary poet's work. "No Return" reveals the personal nightmare of the artist in a police state; "Goodbye" captures, as best as a male poet can hope to, the torment of Korean women forced by the government to sell their bodies to visiting Japanese businessmen in the loathsome practice known as kisaeng...
...lived the lifestyle traditionally associated with their profession: dressed in black, they often went hungry and struggled to get their work published. It was at this time that Neruda wrote and was able to publish Twenty Poems of Love and an Ode on Desperation, a melancholy collection filled with torment and passion. Neruda would later refer to the poems as the expression of his love affair with Santiago...
...heart of the play, Chamberlain captures the self-lacerating torment of Shannon, and McGuire the innate goodness of Hannah, but both are some what out of their depth where the play itself becomes deeper in certain late scenes and speeches that border on mys tical transcendence...
Updike's latest book, Marry Me, is set in 1962, in pre-assassination America. As the protagonist suggests, it is "the twilight of the old morality, and there's just enough to torment us, and not enough to hold us in." The old confrontations--East vs. West, black vs. white--are reaching a head, and no one can know what the resolutions will...