Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Real Pain...
...Thank God tonight's my last class" of the semester, said Elizabeth Overton, who rides the Red Line twice weekly to attend an I Mension School class, "It's going to be a real pain...
...pain, but you know how when you go around, it squeaks and everything. The 'I' will be better it it's smoother," said another veteran of late night 'I' rides, John W. Bovnron...
Although this specific dread is unacknowledged by the autobiographer, it seems to be the subtext of the hearing and all that follows: "I had been led on into a strange country, a country that knew no boundaries and was called Pain." Terrified of strangers, besieged by reporters, taunted in schools, Gloria blinks through a chaos of flashbulbs and interrogations; in a nation wasted by the Depression, she becomes America's real-life Little Orphan Annie...
What makes this play, usually, more than the sum of its decadence is the tragedy of Prince Hamlet, the sense of loss that teaches for our hearts and squeezes hard That Hamlet dies is a pity, that Hamlet indecisiveness reminds us of our own is painful, but that's all, folks. What makes pity into despair and pain into anguish and Hamlet, the proto-Dallas, into a classic is: Hamlet's tragedy, his failure to achieve what we feel could have been true greatness. As Fortinbras says in the final act, "For he was likely, had he been...