Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hugh Sidey has never been better than in his story on "The Right Rev. Ronald Reagan." I have been a minister in the United Methodist Church for 40 years, and it pains me when my colleagues in the pulpit confuse the Gospel with political opinions and self-righteousness with justice. When the President of the U.S. falls into such blasphemy, my pain is compounded many times over...
...give personality to Baby (now a college freshman) marks a transition. From that point the play becomes the very personal struggle of Baby to escape his parents' nightmare. For the audience, the switch from observing objects labeled "Mother." Father," and "Baby" to watching a real person in obvious pain is harsh, a switch in genre rather than mood. Although there are several good laughts after the transition, the play is no longer a comedy. The revolting nature of the young man's situation is too convincing to be amusing...
...more interestingly, the film avoids a moralistic tone by showing how the grease and leather can serve as an ironical security blanket. In addition to providing release from harsh home life and bleaker prospects, being a greaser safeguards the characters against further pain. When Ponyboy falls for a pretty soc, she encourages him for a while but then admonishes. "If I see you in school, and don't say hello, don't take it personally." Those incidents, coupled with the tragedy which befalls a greaser-turned-Good Samaritan, show why the greaser alliance can become a useful shield...
Nowhere in Central America did the Pope offer to share the blame for the pain, which can be traced to the area's severe overpopulation. Does he understand the harmful consequences of his anticontraceptive stand...
HOSPITALIZED. George Corley Wallace, 63, elected in 1982 to a fourth term as Alabama Governor despite being in a wheelchair since a 1972 assassination attempt; for pain in his lower abdomen and related depression, which his physician says is also caused by his problems as Governor; in Birmingham. It is his third trip to the hospital since his January inauguration, but a spokesman says that Wallace "is still very much in charge...