Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yorkers who had gathered two weeks ago to celebrate his 53 years of achievement in the movies. Olivier is a frail 75 now, and his body has played grudging host to enough illnesses to wipe out the entire Royal Shakespeare Company. So backstagers looked on with pain but not surprise as he momentarily lost his balance and slumped against the doorway. Then the crowd rose, and with it the applause. Olivier took his cue and went out onstage. Suddenly he was the dashing Lord Larry, energized by the spotlight, alive to the theatrical moment, mesmerizing one more audience. Like Tinker...
...they window-shop and occasionally play Space Invaders. Pringle gives Eric's medicine a personality. Vincristine, a derivative of the periwinkle plant that is responsible for Eric's baldness, is dubbed "Sheriff Pete Periwinkle," aiming to outdraw the bad blood cells. But the sheriff loses, and the pain returns with a shock: "This five-year-old is no longer protected, and he knows...
...introduction by a character named Gossip ("Enjoy the play, friends, Gossip now be gone. I'll change my costume quickly and return anon.") It continues through a brief and purposefully confusing ploy of divorces and jealousy--regular General Hospital fare--("Oh, woe, that I should unaraesthetized bear such pain") and through to the end ("...and o'er the martinis that our good pay makes possible, We'll mourn the sorry state of this... most grievous hospital."). It's hardly Hamlet, but it sounds like...
...they pushed a "scores alone" policy, all other factors be damned. The rash adoption of this policy by all too eager educational institutions (and the vicious media manipulations of the subject) has seriously undermined the educational opportunities for many Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans not to mention the emotional pain and cultural stress it has caused these groups...
...query of pain melts away and there is only peace in the visage, peace, like a plate upside down. And presently the head is bowed again, and soon it is lost in the dark heads of the millions marching...