Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With these choices and others, Bush is quickly discovering, as John F. Kennedy put it, that it is "much easier to give the speeches than to make the judgments." Bush won the White House by promising no new taxes, no significant spending cuts -- no pain. Now he has moved into the world of knuckle-biting trade-offs and compromise. Having spent much of his adult life striving to be President, George Bush finally is getting his chance to act like one -- and sooner than he expected...
...docket: the bad guy lurking in any man ready to act on his suspicion that an attractive woman is his for the taking. Sometimes the good guys, like the Accused team, win a small victory for women: women who should not ever have to decide, on pain of assault, whether they are good women or bad ones, victims or vamps...
Beckett sees human existence as haplessly ephemeral -- eroded away, the very moment it is lived, by aging and pain and forgetfulness and death. "They give birth astride of a grave," one of the characters cries out in the play's most memorable line. The barren landscape of Godot is not recognizably our world. The fetid tramps sleep in ditches and are beaten by nameless others in the night. But their frustrated yearning to be recognized and their sense of life as perpetual diminishment should seem universal. Instead, the supreme existentialist tragedy of the 20th century has been reduced...
...Instant karma's gonna get him if I don't get him first"), but sufficiently tough-minded to resist looking to music for salvation. Like the Lennon song from which it draws its title, God Part II suggests only that if there is any anodyne at all for spiritual pain, it lies inward, on the far side of a troubled heart...
...victory in last year's Game, which denied the Elis the Ivy title, is still strong. Wouldn't it be great to stick the Harvardians on their own turf? The Elis, too, have suffered through a disappointing season. A victory in The Game would ease the pain...