Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very obvious hazard," said Sally Alcorn, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, a sponsor of the Winterfest. Alcorn said that a sharp curve in the slide's track collapsed yesterday morning, leaving a slide which "would have sent riders flying into Au Bon Pain [the adjacent bakery]," had officials not decided to destroy the structure...
...question of whether Winthrop House will have a grill this year "depends on whether I get my act together." Goodman says. "It would be a fun thing to do. Most people says it would be a pain in the ass unless I had a lot of people [working for me]," he says...
...another. Entangled, they must work their way out by twisting until their knot unravels. "Anita's stuck again." Laughter. Julie: "Double duck-ducks, please." Kids on haunches in one large circle again. Hector, tagged "Goose," has to run outside the circle to tag Felice. Slips and collisions. Howls, exaggerated pain. Circle re-forms. Julie: "Huggy-bear two." Kids embrace in pairs. "Huggy-bear five." Kids embrace in clusters of five. Hector to observer: "Love at first sight." This is an elimination game. Last boy pretends to weep with self-pity, moans, "Rejected." Julie again: "Emotional machines." Kids make instant clusters...
Michel Bergerac, the ousted chairman of Revlon, would surely agree. Revlon spent nearly five months trying to elude Pantry Pride, a Florida supermarket chain that is about one-third Revlon's size, but the cosmetics king was finally acquired for $2.7 billion in November. Though Bergerac's pain at seeing his company bought was eased by a $36 million parting settlement, or golden parachute, he still talks like a bitter man. "The whole thing was crazy," he says. "Here we built a great American corporation. Then through this process the stock ended up in the hands of arbitragers, who forced...
...Composer Frederick Loewe, 84, and opera's Beverly Sills, 56--were wined and dined for two days, but not quite as usual. Cunningham, "the non sequitur of the evening," said his publicist, was served special macrobiotic dinners. And Dunne, disappointedly, was unable to attend the grand finale after back-pain medication made her ill. Hospitalized, she sent word that "the show should go on," and that it did, in a star-studded tribute taped for broadcast on CBS next week. Hope was moved to tears by troupers from every branch of the armed services singing Thanks for the Memories. Sills...