Word: torments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Unprofessional" is the euphemism that peacekeepers resort to when they want to say something negative about their mission. Every soldier, from private to commander, is forbidden to offer his opinions to journalists. But the troops have many reasons for frustration. The Bosnian Serbs torment them, humiliate them, take them hostage. Meanwhile, the Bosnian Muslims revile them for standing by when women and children are shot. They must stand by, however, since as impartial "peacekeepers" they are forbidden to take sides...
From Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire to Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, Brando was best when playing characters in torment. Unfortunately, that torment spilled over into his life. According to Peter Manso, author of the 1,118-page Brando: The Biography (1994), Cheyenne's suicide is not the first in Brando's life. "There have been about five girlfriends who have committed suicide," Manso says, "and another three or four who tried. So this is not foreign to him at all." Still, Brando, 71, was deeply affected by the death of the girl he once called "the most...
...unremittingly irksome scraping noise and leaving a silvery circular trail behind them, round and round. You don't feel empathy with the dead animals--the molds are too blank to evoke much more than the merest ghost of pathos--but you shudder at the gratuitousness of their posthumous torment. It's like a brief glimpse of animal hell, going on forever...
...book and stuffing them in his mouth. As he begs for mercy, he is raised by a pulley and left to dangle in the air. The scene is cast in a red light, effectively evoking a hellish atmosphere. The torturers re costumed in sensuously textured clothing, making Ward's torment appear like a circus...
When Hooker does stick to the blues, watch out. He peppers the blues with his biting guitar licks and genuine squeals of anguish. Indeed, it seems as if nothing goes right in his life. Hooker sings of heartbreak, airline delays and biblical floods with the typical personal torment that makes the blues so affecting...