Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Berkman stole his Panasonic VHS from his older brother--"he stole one from my father, who bought himself a new one." The Quincy House resident says, "It's for those times when you want to sit at home with a whole bunch of people and just hang out. I mean, you can't pass beers around in a movie theater. And you can always stop the movie when you have to go to the bathroom...
...ringing with calls for someone named "Herman." The telephone lay just out of my reach, waiting silently for the precise moment of my dream when the girl comes in. Then it would ring, I would jump, and some nimrod on the other end would ask for "Herman" or hang up at the sound of my enraged greeting. I thought maybe the nurses were calling the number and then laughing hysterically when I answered. I asked for the extra phone to be disconnected, but it wasn't in the rules...
Unable to find enough young people to flip its Big Macs, McDonald's has launched a recruiting program called McMasters to entice older Americans into staffing its grills and cash registers. Competitor Wendy's offers cash incentives, scholarships and "career ladders" to hang on to teenage employees. Dow Chemical, vilified on college campuses during the Viet Nam War for manufacturing napalm, is reaching out to young people in television commercials that show freshly minted college graduates signing on to help feed the world. Across the U.S., colleges are out hustling for freshmen in innovative ways: the University of Rochester offers...
...production of season for the American Repertory Theatre--more than any other director, including the theater's founder and artistic director, Robert Brustein. As familiarity breeds contempt, especially in high culture, we might conclude that there is something wrong with him. Why would any real world-class auteur hang around Harvard Square? Robert Wilson seems only to spend scattered weeks here between breakfast meetings in Vladivostok and fundraisers in Kuala Lumpur. Now, there, there's an artiste...
...retirement and stayed in the area, the long-term impact of the Phillips cuts was not as damaging as it might have been. Still, most business leaders in town say their customers are more cautious spenders now. Observes David Oakley, president of Oakley Pontiac-Buick: "People are starting to hang on to cars a little longer. My new-car sales are off, but service...