Word: hange
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Houses don't really provide a place to "hang out," precisely because people don't take the idea of the-house-as-a-community seriously enough. Senior and junior common rooms are usually booked by groups a week in advance--which excludes students who want to socialize there. In fact, some houses don't even have T.V. rooms...
...hear about the New Jersey garage owner known to his friends as the "jovial giant"? Seems he was shot to death in his driveway, allegedly by a former Scout leader who was having an affair with his wife. How about the middle-aged beautician in Florida who used to hang out at a bar called Madge's? Gave a ride to a drifter one night and wound up with her throat slashed and her body dumped by the railroad tracks. Then there's the Garden Grove, Calif., teenager convicted of shooting her stepmother to death. Now she claims...
...into such originals as Sing Our Own Song (on the 1986 LP Rat in the Kitchen) or Dance with the Devil on the most recent album. It is on those tunes, righteous and rhythmic, that the band really proves itself. Red Red Wine may be a good song to hang your hat on, but on a UB40 tune like Sing, a band could proudly stake a reputation...
...intense public interest went beyond the issue of racial discrimination. What seemed to hang in the balance was the larger question of whether a conservative court was emerging -- one that not only would shape the future but also might reopen other past cases, such as the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which granted women the right to have an abortion...
...cancer, brilliantly discredited notions -- like that of the pent-up, "cancer-prone" personality -- that add senseless guilt and shame to the burdens patients already carry. "But it's much more common now for people to be candid about cancer," she says "because there's a new disease to hang all your fantasies and phobias on -- AIDS...