But now, it seems, Cat Power is one step removed from those old torments.
Ms. Semanova tried to turn and get off a hook shot - no question of trying to leave her feet - but Ms. Donovan smothered the shot, a schoolyard-style payback of old torments, and she was not shy about shaking both fists in the air as she ran down the court.
Within days, its surfaces are covered with contributions: memories and missives, letters and photos, wishes, angsts, new loves and old torments.
There are rumors about the revival of an age-old torment: mobs from both sides stop men at random and demand they declare their religion.
For instance, one spot, which unfolds the story without dialogue, features a 12-year-old boy sauntering down a city sidewalk when two older boys torment him by tossing coins at him from a second-story window.
Is it Sappho, an old woman tormented by sex?
Old hopes tormented him like phantom limbs, but he did not drink.
In the 1972 version of the original stage play, Laurence Olivier played the old cuckold tormenting his young rival, Michael Caine.
But it's not quite a prescient film – its key chime, if there is one, is Watergate, not NSA – and what touches me is Harry's age-old psychological torment.
Did your older brother torment you by locking you up in a closet with a claustrophobic cat?
In "Strangers," Kobi Ezra, "an unhappy 17-year-old," suffers torments with a more traceable source: He is obsessed with a divorced woman 13 years his senior.
