Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal of warmth," he says. "It made for a mixed bag of emotions; you never knew when it would explode. He owned a candy store, then a dry cleaner's, then a pool hall. In the pool hall, I'd put tips on the cues, clean the tables and hang out. It was my day-care center. At home I was spoiled by my mom and her millions of girlfriends. In Italian families, boys can do anything. Girls are locked in the closet...
...ranges widely, from Rembrandt to Modigliani to an obscure Russian named Pirosmanishvili, who wandered from tavern to tavern a century ago painting pictures of food as inn signs. Berger begins one brilliant essay by describing how peasants in the Haute-Savoie spend winter evenings carving white wooden birds to hang in their kitchens. This leads him to analyze why the wooden birds are works of art, which leads him to wonder why certain things in nature are beautiful...
Following its final training in Horbork, NY, the U.S. laxmen will compete with Australia, England and Canada to hang on to its world-class title, which it won so dramatically in 1982, thrashing Australia...
...more esoteric tomes. If the general reading bookstores don't have that rare book you've been dying to read and you can't find it used, one of the Square's numerous specialty bookstores might be the place. Grolier Book Shop (6 Plympton St.) is a poet hang-out with its selection of almost 10,000 poetry books and if they don't have the collection you're looking for, they'll order it. If you prefer your poetry in the flesh, contemporary poets come here to autograph books and be seen. If you prefer your reading...
Even so, the steep upward direction of stocks prompted traders to hang on to their investments over the weekend rather than sell them off to lock in profits. The mood was still ebullient when the market reopened. The Dow leaped 29.74 on Tuesday and 25.25 on Wednesday to a record 1878.28. The unprecedented four-day rise was 103.11, which more than recouped the index's recent losses. The Dow inched ahead 4.07 on Thursday to set another record close and then slipped back 5.64 on Friday to end the week...