Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although it serves no food, Toad's Place deserves mention here. Located on Chapel St. right across from Stillman Library ("it can really be a pain when you're trying to study in the Stillman stacks--a Yalie), Toad's is renamed as probably the best rock club in town. Deceptively large inside, Toad's Place manages to draw some of the finest musical talent on the East Coast.PhotoThe Harvard Crimson...
...attack on one group of young women: "All they could sense at the time was the stark fear of being faced by naked, sweating, foul-smelling men; the look on the rapists' faces as they laughed and leered; the shock of slappings and beatings; and finally the tearing pain as violation after violation took place in the most forceful and crude manner...
...drugs block nerve impulses to special sites (beta receptors) in body tissues. They reduce the rate at which the heart beats and the force of its contractions, thus decreasing its work load. More than a dozen beta blockers are in use worldwide, primarily for treatment of severe chest pain (angina), high blood pressure and arrhythmias...
When Halberstam picks up the team during the 1979-80 season, Walton has left in a fury of lawsuits against the team, its trainer and doctor over treatments with pain killers. Maurice Lucas, the power forward who had provided muscle and meanness under the boards, was locked in an acrimonious contract dispute with Portland's owner. Guard Lionel Hollins, ball-handler and playmaker nonpareil, also wrangled with management; he and Lucas were soon traded. Their running mate, Dave Twardzik, stumbled about the court, a man suddenly severed from a rare athletic symbiosis. Forward Bobby Gross was injured for most...
...something that would belong to white people." The book's one insight is into the character of Bill Walton. He casts an emotional shadow that is even larger than his considerable (6 ft. 11 in.) physical presence. Long misunderstood as a hippie superstar with a low tolerance for pain, Walton emerges here as courageous in the face of injury but petty about his prerogatives as the team's key player, a man first spoiled by his physical gifts, then petulant, even vindictive when they desert him. But this is not a fair return for 362 pages. Later, readers...