Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subject of the world's most pretentious donut shop. Only Cambridge, I thought, could boast a java-and-danish nook with a ridiculous French name and prices four times the normal exchange rate. But no one else seemed to notice any irregularity, and by the time the "Au Bon Pain" and "Vie de France" explosion was over, "patisserie" signs were as common as lesbian poets on the streets of Cambridge. It just wasn't news...
Professional wrestling has never been better and more action-packed, but don't ask this fan to turn his attention to king Kong Bundy's reign of pain. He's been too wrapped up in the strange and wonderful burden of choosing. Harvard's 1986-'87 All-Hockey team...
...considered the value of home shopping--if indeed there is one--until I realized what a pain it is to go out to do your shopping. Until, that is, the day I walked into Strawberries to buy a record...
...question remains of how much discomfort -- not to mention occasional pain -- may be involved. If, as the Reagan Administration hopes, the semiconductor skirmish spurs Tokyo to more urgent efforts to settle trade disputes, it will have served a useful purpose...
...Chetwynd's intention is to re-create the life endured in North Viet Nam's Hoa Lo prison by American POWs, in some cases for as long as eight years. Their lot consisted of systematic degradation, maddening isolation and the grinding $ waste of years, punctuated by episodes of ghastly pain. But, presented artlessly, this is not the stuff of compelling drama. There is not enough filth in the corners, not enough ambiguity when the movie shows prisoners resisting the pressure to confess to "war crimes." Chetwynd has recruited an able cast, led by Michael Moriarty, Jeffrey Jones and Paul...