Word: painlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good wage: at the big new A & P in Dixon, four cans of evaporated milk cost 19?; the price of 3 Ibs. of coffee was 49?, and 10 Ibs. of new potatoes went for 23?. For 75?, the Dixon dentists would pull a tooth by the "painless method," or so said their...
Washington University's Murray Weidenbaum, an adviser to Reagan during the presidential campaign, insisted that the new Administration recognizes that its budget will be controversial and involve some unpopular cutbacks in spending. Said he: "This is not going to be a painless solution. Reagan is trying to avoid the stop-and-go policies that have characterized preceding Administrations, both Republican and Democrat, and hence fight unemployment and inflation simultaneously...
UPON FIRST LISTENING, you might think that side one is just some variations on a repetitive theme. Second listening might lend the same impression. Eventually "Cross-eyed and Painless" (the first single to be released) and "The Great Curve" emerge as the kind of songs Byrne was looking for: a driving variation of funk with lyrics almost as entertaining as those of Parliament-- "The world moves on a woman's hips, the world moves and it swivels and bops." Unfortunately, "Born Under Punches," like "Seen and Not Seen" on side two, is a victim of the risk that Byrne took...
With pragmatism typical of the current Peking regime, the programs have been chosen to make this introduction for spectators unschooled in the subtleties of Peking opera as painless as possible. Most of the pieces being done on this tour are single scenes from longer works, and three of the four works that I saw depicted battles of one kind or another. The effects in these scenes become progressively more elaborate, including choreographed swordfights and spears juggled between performers (often with the feet, from behind the back), climaxing in the final Yen Tang Mountain in a colossal and transcendental display...
...French are now determined to undertake short-term austerities necessary to increase basic investment in sectors earmarked for future growth. They have publicly identified the problem, and the Prime Minister is constantly discussing the issue and laying the groundwork for public support for the remedy. There are no painless cures, but if the French public is prepared to undertake this program of austerity, then France, for all its divisive politics, may well be joining Germany and Japan in the ranks of countries which have very successfully adapted to the requirements for a healthy economy in a new era of competition...