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Banks and Big Steel. It takes a lot of turmoil to shake these once sturdy pillars of U.S. business. But in the past few years, plenty of trouble has come along to torment some of the most rock-solid names in each of those industries. Economic upheavals ranging from the oil-price slump to the glut of imported steel have forced giant banking and steel corporations to make dramatic adjustments to survive. Unfortunately, not all of them are going to make it. That became painfully clear last week, when the strains of economic change finally caught up with several companies...
...plays with his words to create a state of intellectual torment in his readers to make them confront his country's predicament. His artistry lies not in an ability to write pleasant fiction, but in his powerful ability to use an inherited form in novel ways. Angelo's book offers no repose to its readers, no chance to lapse into a happy understanding with the text. One can only laugh and skim through the pages, as the narrator does at times, or wrestle with the book...
...best friends in high school started to lose his hair during our sophomore year. My other friends and I, eager to ridicule any personal flaw we could find in our companions, embarked on a three-year crusade to torment our balding...
...risks were considerable. It is never easy to compete with a theater legend, even of one's own making. The play itself, a 4 1/2-hour tragedy about the pitiable denizens of a flyblown bar, lacks obvious commercial appeal. And as the central figure, the best-liked man, Robards must torment his friends, show himself capable of cold-blooded murder, then celebrate his certain doom. The women in the play are all prostitutes, and family life is seen only as a remembered torment. The text is rich in humor, but much of it verges on the cruel or the macabre...
...Duarte Duran go, the captors apparently want, among other things, freedom for several F.M.L.N. guerrillas being held by the government. So far, the government has refused to respond publicly to the kidnapers' demands. The President, meanwhile, acknowledged his personal agony. "If those who oversaw this terrible deed sought to torment a father who is President of the republic, they have succeeded," he told an Independence Day gathering in San Salvador. "They have also provoked the anguish of a mother, the despairing tears of small children, the pain of the people and the shock of civilized nations." At week...