Word: torments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't find anything that good last Thursday on American TV--just the usual hash of soaps, Sesame Street, talk, news ("We begin with a child's torment--a young boy beaten by a pipe!") and reruns of '70s cop shows, the latter accounting for most of the nonjournalistic violence. All told, I witnessed five killings, one every half hour. Not too horrific, but the count surely would have been higher had AMC been featuring John Wayne instead of Ronald Colman...
...pizza today, or 'Tex-Mex?'" You all then pause and squint, trying desperately to decipher the images appearing on the 70-square-foot video-screen to the rear of the space; studying the near traumatizing effect of watching giant images fading out before they ever completely fade in. Mental torment aside, however, the Commons is truly a remarkable place for students...
What would you say to them, Mr. Lat, when they realize that, despite much hard work, they have failed? Would you tell them to be miserable for the rest of their lives? In its own way, that sort of mental torment can be just as destructive as physical abuse...
What would you say to them, Mr. Lat, when they realize that, despite much hard work, they have failed? Would you tell them to be miserable for the rest of their lives? In its own way, that sort of mental torment can be just as destructive as physical abuse...
SIMPSON HAS ESCAPED LIFE IN PRISON, but he will never escape the prison that is his conscience, which I hope will torment him for the rest of his life. GIANNI VASDEKIS, Buenos Aires...