Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several nights a week, Hunsberger sets up his guitar, microphone and amplifier a little before 7 p.m. in front of the Cambridge Trust Bank. After a short time, people watching the chess master, buying food in Au Bon Pain, or just walking along Mass. Ave. stop, listen, and sometimes begin to dance...
Between Neil Young and Simon & Garfunkel hits, Hunsberger takes requests, while sipping the coffee, which he receives free from Au Bon Pain and which is quickly becoming his trademark. He masters new songs as fast as he can; he just learned Don McClean's "American Pie," a song many people ask him to play...
...hardly needs to be told that fables about know-nothing adults and feel-it- all children are not the only tales worth spinning; that adults must face such plot twists as pain, exultation and emotional compromise; that there is drama to be found in the grown-up compulsions of power and, dare we say it, sex. Sure, Spielberg knows there is life after high school. "But after E.T.," he says, "people expected a certain kind of film from me, a certain amount of screams and cheers and laughs and thrills. And I was caving in to that. I knew...
...been held for 444 days in Iran. One reason was the memory of the American who had come home earlier, Navy Diver Robert Stethem, slain by the original hijackers of TWA Flight 847. "Our joy at your return is substantial," Reagan told the crowd. "But so is our pain at what was done to that one son of America." Shortly before going to Andrews Air Force Base, the President had stopped at Arlington National Cemetery and visited Stethem's freshly sodded grave. Only that morning, Stethem's grave had been a bare plot marked by a green metal stake; cemetery...
When the hostages finally return to their hometowns for what will be a particularly jubilant Fourth of July week, the celebrations may begin to drown | out the pain that they and their nation have suffered during the 17-day ordeal. But even the more-or-less successful resolution of the hijacking (tending to be forgotten was murdered Navy Diver Robert Stethem) seems unlikely to discourage those who would use hostages as pawns in a political power game and terrorism as a form of propaganda theater. On the contrary, the astonishing adroitness that a militant faction in an anarchic country displayed...