Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alain. But the flute cannot execute the double stops and many other subtleties possible on the viola d'amore, a little-used instrument with more strings than the normal viola. In this piece Martin fused serial and tonal procedures skillfully, and Thompson's interpretation particularly emphasizes the work's pain...
...which is, as I have said, identical to life in general. It moves from a return to adolescence and ideal love (matched in from by the carnival figures and an unnatural falsetto) to a life of chronic depression ("And I was crying, baby, crying like a child," in a pain-wracked natural voice) to a vision of sexual redemption worthy of Lawrence, sung in the dread/voodoo accents of a Jamaican deejay...
...President would be well-advised to tell his beer-swilling First Brother to shut up." Billygate--a bungled White House attempt to cover up Billy Carter's ties to Libya--has now flooded Washington, of course, and no amount of Allerest or Pabst Blue Ribbon will ease the pain...
...nation's 35.2 million Social Security recipients are receiving a pleasant surprise this month. Their July checks have been increased by a helpful 14.3%. Like about one-quarter of all Americans, they are receiving a cost of living adjustment (COLA) designed to ease the pain of inflation. As double-digit price rises continue to erode their incomes, many weary consumers see a COLA as the pause that refreshes. But critics charge that automatic income adjustments may push the U.S. economy into a permanent inflation high...
Indexation is ultimately an inflation medicine that has dangerous side effects. Because they somewhat dull the pain of higher prices, COLAs weaken the desire to fight inflation. But, despite the dangerous illusion that price rises no longer hurt, the inflation malady lingers...