Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creamiest and richest ice cream around, all made on the premises, Bittersweet chocolate is the house special. Frappes are tough to beat, and the frozen yogurt (available with very fresh fruit) is a terrific alternative for your bewildered palate. Baskin-Robbins (1230 Mass, Ave.): Why anyone would frequent a chain that has spread to the corners of the globe, given the native alternatives, is beyond some, but the familiarity can be comforting to the homesick. The cheapest cone in the Square, and the smallest scoop, too. Try the mudpies--now available in individual slices for $1.50 each--made of Jamocha...
...Saudis had met the challenge. The Reagan Administration had evoked considerable congressional resentment two weeks ago by using its emergency powers to rush 400 Stinger missiles to Saudi Arabia. But it was not prepared to do the same for Kuwait, a gulf state with which the U.S. has had frequent disagreements. Though Kuwait's refineries and desalinization plants are painfully exposed, the White House turned down Kuwait's request to buy 500 Stingers...
Directions for hooking up and operating video cassette recorders can be particularly maddening. A frequent mystery is how to connect the machines to television sets and antennas. Owners must often pick their way through mazes of diagrams and technical terms like "One-touch type F connector" that seem to have been written for licensed electricians. Some manuals compound the confusion with illustrations that differ from the actual machine. Notes the 46-page booklet for a Panasonic OmniVision model: "Please be assured that this difference is not due to mistake but to ongoing product improvement...
...pain can't be very bad. This is a terrible mistake." Only about 5% of chronic pain patients are hypochondriacs or hysterics, according to Psychiatrist Anthony Bouckoms of Massachusetts General Hospital. "Pain itself is the reason people suffer; it is not psychopathology," he avers. And yet the most frequent question Bouckoms hears from pain patients is: "Tell me, doctor, is it all in my head...
...parties. There are occasional testimonials to Belushi's sweetness (he and his wife make love on a Martha's Vineyard cliff; he buys his father a ranch in California and settles some family debts), but the book is swamped by examples of his "monomania." There is frequent mention of the great actor he might have been, but the evidence of his seven films indicates mostly that he was playing image, not mining character...