Common to many "Pedro Pans" is the agonizing memory of the moments they were waiting inside the transparent glass holding room in the Havana airport, known as "la pecera" ("the fishbowl"), where they saw their relatives for the last time while waiting to board the airplane.
The camera takes five annoying seconds to scroll from shot to shot during playback, and seven agonizing seconds to store one photo on the memory card before being ready for the next.
I have repressed my memories of those agonizing moments at 4 p.m., when 12 guests appear at once -- all bearing dishes that need heating or refrigeration.
At Lieutenant Clancy's old firehouse, Engine 298 in Jamaica, news of the judge's decision brought up memories of an agonizing time, Capt. Bruce Groth said.
We talk about how cold your head gets when you're bald, how we both wore little caps to bed during chemo, how the agonizing death scene onstage brought back memories of dying friends.
Unlike in the movies, where amnesia is cured by a hit on the head, MacLean's recovery was an agonizing process — he pieced together his personality and memories with slow learning.
The moments before Ford spoke had to be among the most agonizing in public life for women in recent memory—right up there, in my mind, with the second 2016 Presidential debate, when Donald Trump hulked behind Hillary Clinton like an assailant in a dark alley, oozing menace.
Would her children's final memory of her be of a long, agonizing decline?
While the excisions in Dallas are among the most severe involving the funnies in recent memory, newspapers across the country have been engaging in similarly agonizing discussions about whether their current rosters of comics (sometimes four pages a day) are a luxury, given the current dreary economics of the newspaper business.
The Lakers scored 19 consecutive points from deep in the third quarter to nearly halfway into the fourth, sending out ripples of memories from last year's conference finals, the dramatic Game 7 Laker victory, an agonizing meltdown for the Trail Blazers.
Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land" explores the cryptic connections of four men drifting from present-day reality to memory to fantasy, while Samuel Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy "Waiting for Godot" observes the agonizing limbo of the eternal vagrants Estragon and Vladimir as they await the arrival of the elusive title figure.
