Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...criminal offenders in Japan. Violence on school grounds has increased 42% since 1980, and most of the crimes are committed against teachers. In January at Yoshikawa High School near Tokyo, a gang of 20 students surrounded a group of teachers in the school courtyard, accused them of inflicting pain on one of their number and began to beat them up. It took 20 patrolmen to subdue the boys, but not before ten teachers had been injured...
Public outrage about a pending parole is almost never relevant legally. But this campaign worked. Calling the outcry "extraordinary," the board of prison terms stopped Pain's release. Fain may not have been surprised. Six years ago, a 22,000-name petition and a single legislator teamed to block Fain's first parole date. That about-face was upheld by a state appeals court, which ruled that the authorities' "developing awareness of the public hostility" was new information that could be grounds for rescinding his parole...
...When the police were putting handcuff on the man he screamed out in pain, and my brother Buddy Packer stepped forward and protested," Packer said. "The police turned on him [Buddy Packer] and started to attack him with their night sticks," Packer stated...
...that our own government may have authorized the death of Charlie Horman that gnaws at us as an American audience, that we cannot believe. The indiscriminate torturing and killing of hundreds of Chilean civilians in the movie repulses us, but somehow we remain outside, protected from the terror and pain But the killing of an American truly outrages us. What happened to that invisible forcefield of protection that is supposed to surround an American everywhere he goes? Lemmon wonders. And we wonder, too Yet it is only through the death of the young American that our repulsion grows...
...lyrics explain the obvious class difference in their relationship. One use of music that in particular teeters between the heavy-handed and the affecting is the repetition of the Beatles' "If I fell in love with you Would you promise to be true... 'cause I couldn't stand the pain." First, as George packs his things to leave, he and Faith sing the song in French, in happy reminiscence of honeymoon days in Provence. Is the irony meant to come through only to those educated in French, or is it assumed that every viewer has the lyrics deep enough under...