Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of the anachronisms, Dream's satire hasn't aged well. Mommy and her women's club friend, Mrs. Barker (Caroline Bicks) bear little resemblance to career-minded 1980s women. It's also hard to laugh at a feeble man who calls his dominating wife "Mommy," since President Reagan is still in office...
...jailers, the dog-eat-dog struggle among the prisoners, the treachery of the informers. Each account evokes the stench, the rattle of fetters, the heart-stopping cold, the killing hard labor. Still, each author used different stratagems to survive, to prevail as a human being and, ultimately, to bear witness...
...August of last year, Kenny Chambers, formerly of the well-known Boston band Moving Targets, replaced Brennan. After their first show in their new incarnation, in November at T.T. the Bear's, Bullet LaVolta signed a contract with Taang! records, a small independent label. Two weeks ago, after a few months' delay, they released their first record. They were recently invited, as one of Boston's best 24 bands, to compete in WBCN's Rumble...
...with graduation, all of that will be changing. Austrian will not be wearing Harvard tennis whites the next time she sees a match. Instead, she will be wearing a business suit. And her attache case will be filled with Bear-Stearns business cards from the special investments department...
...worst beating ever--an anxious senior called the analysts with whom he had worked the previous summer to find out the word on the Street. Though it was long after the market had closed, the would-be investment banker found that his friends were still at the offices of Bear Stearns & Co.--trying to make sense of Black Monday...