Word: paines
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...that political conventions have declined into nothing more than predictable TV shows. Not so. The conventions have declined into predictable TV shows and shameless off-camera fund-raising orgies. So last week there was one Republican Convention on the big stage, where the newly domesticated party leaders felt your pain and the gospel choirs whooped. But the real sounds of Hallelujah! were going on at the other convention. That one took place all around town at the lobster-and-champagne galas corporate donors gave for their favorite members of Congress and the Republicans gave right back to thank their major...
...cultural revisionism. I rejoiced in waiters, hotel receptionists and pharmacy clerks who refused to speak English. I scoffed at the idiots who spent an hour waiting to get into the Louvre when the alternative entrance is a few feet--I mean meters--away. I had mastered the difference between pain de campagne and pain au Levin. How much more French could...
...producers of Harvard Man, distributed by Lion's Gate Films, were squinting up through the gray mist at the faade of Au Bon Pain Wednesday, hoping to create some perfect exteriors for their self-proclaimed teen/crime/thriller...
...they're always out in the middle of nowhere. As for mountains, an occasional range is nice, but mountains tend to cluster and become a continuous piece of bad art, a painting you'd see at an estate sale and not buy. And mountain people are a pain. Vermonters, for example, tend to be very sniffy about who is worthy to set foot in their midst and use their toilet facilities. In Minnesota we are astonished and gratified if anyone visits us, and we can't do enough for them, but then this is a flat state...
...HUPD received a call from Holyoke Center Security stating that a homeless person was bumping into patrons at Au Bon Pain. The person was removed...