Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that a Japanese crime cartel called the Yakuza has moved into the U.S. with drug smuggling, gunrunning, gambling and pornography. The members operate under a brutal and feudal discipline and often tattoo their bodies from shoulders to thighs using needles that penetrate a quarter-inch, teaching initiates to withstand pain. One Japanese businessman claimed that four high-stakes casinos are run by the Yakuza in Manhattan in cooperation with the Mafia...
Harris' plight is typical of the pain that rising prices still inflict on many shoppers despite a string of glowing Government reports showing that inflation has been tamed. Last week the Labor Department provided more relatively good numbers. It said the C.P.I. rose at a 4.2% rate during the twelve months that ended in September. In another encouraging move for the U.S. economy, many major U.S. banks lowered their prime lending rates, which had ranged...
...guerrillas quietly moved out of town, Duarte emerged from the church, took a microphone and, while one of the Salvadoran Boy Scouts-the main peacekeeping force in town-held up a bullhorn, praised the "admirable attitude of both sides." Each, Duarte told the crowd, was aware of the "misery, pain, injustice and lack of liberty of the Salvadoran people ... We aren't offering miracles. But Salvadoran people together can gain the miracle of their liberation and peace for all." Said Duarte: "These have been among the most transcendental hours in Salvadoran history...
...star, Derek Jacobi, in the rising-geyser cadences that just about every serious English actor of the past 20 years has borrowed from Laurence Olivier. In his best roles Jacobi finds heroism in gray ordinariness: the stammering honesty of Claudius in TV's I, Claudius, the grace and pain beneath the raillery in Much Ado. But Cyrano is extraordinary, unique; his heart and his compulsive excellence set him apart from other mortals more than his prominent proboscis. Jacobi, for all his energetic resourcefulness, has neither the swagger nor the stature for the part. He commandeers the stage with...
...Uncle Elliot, the quintessential Maugham man of society with impeccable charm and studied superficiality. "I spent my life with the great names of Europe," he says with the perfect match of weariness and savoir-faire, "and who comes to visit me." Less successfully, Catherine Hicks portrays Isabel with the pain and confusion one associates with "the drugs and all of that" that are the sum of our knowledge of Isabel...