Word: tormenting
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...Russian actor who now appears to be all surface, a musty relic of the past, embalmed in the stylized rituals of ballet and the overstatements of vaudeville. By contrast, the American actor performs his abiding task, which is the intense psychological probing of every nuance of inner torment...
...Poland is just too too off-Broadway. At any rate, the program is saturated with all the fashionably despairing notions that stir tempests in the espresso cups of Greenwich Village coffeehouses. The angst comes in all flavors and includes Everyman's thwarted desire to communicate with Everyman, the torment of the creative artist, the solitary anguish of existence, and the torturing sense of living in the shadow of the Apocalypse...
Eating out in France has become a financial torment as well as an Epicurean pleasure. Restaurants tack on extra charges for everything from napkins to green vegetables, and les additions have risen higher than souffles. Disturbed by the 9% rise in restaurant prices in the last year compared with a hike in overall living costs of 2.5%, Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing has decided to broaden France's 14-month-old price-stabilization program to cover menus. Last week hard-eyed government inspectors set out all over France to make certain that the nation...
...primary, decided to stand by individual liberty, private enterprise and Barry Goldwater, thus remaining in the G.O.P. column for its 84th year. The New York Herald Tribune, with an even longer record-more than 100 years-as a Republican stalwart, said: WE CHOOSE JOHNSON. Confessed the Trib: "Travail and torment go into those simple words. But we find ourselves as Americans, even as Republicans, with no other acceptable course...
...Certainly, the techniques of modern moviemaking are much in evidence. Sound and images overlap. During long silent passages, the characters narrow their eyes at one another, conveying reams of censorable prose in each perfervid glance. The photography is often eerily beautiful-a subaqueous twilight world where everyone's torment finally condenses into eddying streams, stagnant pools and rushing rapids, an unsettling suggestion that the machinery of despair is water-driven...