Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Squash is a difficult game; to play it well, one has to have finesse, speed, stamina, and a tolerance for pain that borders on masochism. Kenton Jernigan is one of the best...
...second half, the psychological test got really sadistic. It was a pain-threshhold experiment, measuring my resistance by jolting me with emotional shocks until I cracked...
...then throw him out when he gets too rough. Curing the on-the-road blues with a little a cappella harmony on Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Patsy finds therapy in music: a way both of transcending her troubles and of registering each semiquaver of pain...
...seems determined to find something sympathetic in each character, yet often defers such revelations until the obvious humor has been exhausted. Still, the self-examinations can be potent: the spiteful teenager closes the first act with a blazing speech about how she would like to emulate the indifference to pain of her "hero," G. Gordon Liddy, but she cannot deny the agony of thrusting her hand, or her soul, into a flame...
Kirkland House residents said they were not pleased by the new program. "I think it's a real pain in the ass," complained David Beardsly '88. He added that now the garbage just piles up in his room until someone brings it down...