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Word: paines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unformed Keynes was no more at ease with himself than others were. His most serious homosexual attachment, to the painter Duncan Grant, caused him, in the end, profound confusion as well as pain. Furthermore, for all his Cambridge-debater disapproval of Christianity, he was, Skidelsky remarks, "close enough to the 'believing' generation to have a need for 'true beliefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brains Alone John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...with a little help from the Good Lord and his own wits, Pryor managed to escape from it all, although not entirely unscathed. Pryor excuses his own drunken stupors and coke-induced delirium as vital relief from comic pain. After all, Lenny Bruce and scores (pun intended) of others set the precedent...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Richard Pryor, Your Story is Calling | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

...behalf of the Harvard-Radcliffe Society for Lebanese Affairs (HRSLA), I would like to thank the reporters of The Crimson and its editorial staff for covering Dr. Wadi Haddad's lecture on April 23rd. It is nonetheless with great pain and frustration that I feel compelled to make some corrections to the sloppy reporting of the reporter who covered the lecture for The Crimson. The reporter's mistakes are unprofessional and the damage she caused is irreparable. She misrepresented the spirit and distorted the letter of Dr. Haddad's speech by misinterpreting and misquoting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haddad | 5/5/1986 | See Source »

This Batman does not joke. This Batman does not have bat-devices for every conceivable need--he carries pain killers and ampules of nerve gas. He is vicious, self-destructive, haunted by the memory of the murder of his parents--the source of his vengeful inspiration...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: A Bat Out of Hell | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

...lure worked. After decades of silence, Leitch arranged to meet a reader named Truda, in Liverpool: "Recognition was total, instantaneous. Her expression revealed a moment of fear so acute it was like a pain." Like many other adopted children, her son had his own fears. Were his own flaws environmental, or were they "symbolic perhaps of a greater human carelessness which would forever tie me to my mother's defection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victoriana Family Secrets: a Writer's Search for His Parents and | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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