Word: painful
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...These include Pete O’Felia (Mac H. Bartels ’09), a take on the Pied Piper; Oldielocks (Clifford N. Murray ’10), a combination of the old and apparently Jewish woman who lived in a shoe and Goldielocks; and Roy L. Pain (Thomas R. Compton ’09). The opening musical number features some surprisingly capable singing. Compton’s voice comes off strong even when a repeated ‘ribbet’ comprises his only sung line. Andersson and Daniel V. Kroop ’10 as the character...
...Soviet Union with cold war invective. She coldly withstood the threats of Irish Republican Army hunger strikers, even when ten of them died of starvation in 1981 at Belfast's Maze prison. She pursued an austere, rigidly monetarist economic line, and when members of her Cabinet protested about the pain it was causing many Britons, she forced out a number of these "wets," her term for the irresolute. Says former Labor Prime Minister Sir Harold Wilson, 67, who retired from politics last month after 38 years in Parliament: "Mrs. Thatcher's image is that of the toughest...
...Angel” and “If I Had Eyes.” But “Sleep Through the Static” actually establishes an important thematic thread that runs throughout the album—a motif of embracing sensation even when it brings pain. While expressing an inability to understand the world when he is “stuck between channels,” Johnson argues that the current political climate forces a choice between “pushing for peace” and “supporting the troops...
...Mama and Chris Brown are the new Janet and Michael Jackson—and T-Pain, ironically enough, is the new Tito. The “Lip Gloss” chanteuse and her crazy-legged counterparts find themselves in Mama’s latest video, “Shawty Get Loose,” on a spacecraft that’s strikingly similar to the one depicted in Janet and Michael’s 1995 “Scream.” While “Scream,” the most expensive music video ever produced...
...long as enthusiastic Obama supporters want to know why they cannot attend the debate. "It could have been a golden opportunity, but it's become a colossal headache," Davis said. His friends and counterparts in the Clinton campaign and in student organizations are telling him they share his pain as they also take the heat. "Everyone is getting slammed," Davis said. "This is supposed to be a fair, transparent populist party...