Word: painful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tough to lose, but the real pain comes when you've gone and done both, as the Harvard cross-country team learned after being drubbed by Dartmouth, 17-40, and doused by New England's consistently aquatic weekend weather, in yesterday's meet at Franklin Park...
Carter has received from the Treasury other recommendations that would further pain the business community...
...always camouflage its origins as a one-set play: there are too many theatrical monologues that stop the movie dead, and there is a forced climax that is almost a parody of third act curtain scenes. Director Robert M. Young (Nothing but a Man) does, however, convey the authentic pain in Pinero's script, and it really stings...
...then, do dancers choose to be dancers? Neither book provides a clear-cut answer. Certainly it is not for the elusive goals of fame or monetary reward. Yet both books offer hints, glimpses of something beyond the regimentation and the sweat and the pain. For while dance is all those things, it is also, in Stevens' words, "a reaching for some kind of ecstasy...
Menuhin is more reticent about the private events of an adulthood spend in the public eye. He writes cryptically, and with ovbious pain, of his hasty first marriage and subsequent divorce ("Each of us had married an illusion...There was nothing in my past to teach me how to cope with failure"). He speaks warmly, and with a tinge of regret, of his four living children (a fifth died at birth)--"as a father I have probably spend less time with my children than any man not sentenced to life imprisonment." And no amount of reserve can hide his delight...