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One wonders whether the dark and shadowy world of his photographs might have had some association in his mind with the ambivalence he felt toward the Jews he posed in such excruciating positions.
It's as though their melancholy derived from the excruciating imperative to be blacks performing according to the conventions of blackface.
After his excruciating performance in the 1996 Republican presidential campaign, Lamar Alexander should have had the grace to disappear quietly into the Tennessee backwoods.
Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole, the laconic Kansan who for more than three decades in Congress has been to reluctant to draw attention to his wounds from World War II, returned today to a hospital building where he suffered excruciating pain and nearly died.
a bad day for Julius Caesar and a bad day for Bill Clinton," warns Bill Kristol (ABC's This Week ). Looking ahead to the interview, Paul Gigot (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ) predicts an "excruciating weekend" for Clinton.