Word: torments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dramatic range of movements. One ofthe best pieces follows Prince's well-known"Purple Rain." Valerie Madina performs a solo in aclown costume with her face painted afrighteningly glowing white. Every facialexpression of hers deepens into amazingly dramaticemotion and the intensity surges through her body,wrenched with pain and torment...
...their good intentions. In the process, they may become sentimental, cautionary fables of mistaken identity, compiling atrocities and piling them on photogenic victims. Suffering sanctifies Le Ly and Gerry's dad and Andy, makes them objects of veneration to the faithful; everyone wants to kiss the hem of their torment...
...spiritual strength and enduring symbolism. The 40-by-45-ft. fresco on the west altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, on which Michelangelo labored for five years, is also a searing, unsparing personal document -- both of the unsettled world in which Michelangelo lived and of the artist's inner torment and fear of approaching death...
...would not be an exaggeration to call Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf home to the most vicious dialogue in the history of the American theatre. In 23 years of marriage, George and Martha have not only learned how to torment each other, they have learned to do it with style. These two don't just carp about character flaws or accuse one another of wrong-doing: each refutes the other's very right to existence. Early in the first act, Martha says to George, "I can't even see you...I haven't even been able...
...helpful if you are forever on display and on trial. In vivid detail (Mussolini looks "like a Caruso in uniform"), the book unfolds with the archetypal figures and engorged emotions of silent films ("You must be my mistress," Goebbels implores; "I need you -- without you my life is a torment!"). A fascinating political and personal history, the book could make an enthralling movie...