Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rumors constantly circulate that the Duck will be shut down. A recent advertisement, though, stresses that the rumors are not true: "NO the Duck is NOT closing!!! It lives and continues to be just plain crazy, stupid bar!!!" The tone of the ad matches the place itself: reminiscent of a simpler age when women were simply paid for in goats and dragged off by their hair. If the ad is to be believed, The Hungry Duck will be serving up its uniquely orgiastic take on glasnost for years to come...
...Jamaica Plain resident and a Boston resident report that while standing in line at Rhythm and Spice at 315 Mass. Ave., they were yelled at and pushed out of the way by a store employee...
Finally, there was another, more intriguing, factor. When the Lewinsky story broke, Clinton played a dummy hand, sitting out the first 48 hours in shock, while his wife plotted a way out. But this time, if the White House can be believed, Clinton was just plain mad. On Saturday night he and his Camp David houseguests watched The Boxer, a dense drama of personal and political pain in Northern Ireland. Then he got on the phone with the trashman, James Carville, who in 1992 ran the war room and commandeered the phrase "speed kills" to express the belief that when...
...Fund reform programs, they have yet to see their growing wealth trickle down very far. For ordinary citizens, daily hardships are intense: few jobs, few schools, few hospitals, poor diets, rising prices, no money. For the majorities of these populations that are ill fed, ill clothed, illiterate and just plain ill, what Mozambicans dubbed the "years of cabbage" are not over...
...great bull market has created a lot of experts like the Gardners, the Beardstown ladies and Seto. But the attraction of stocks--even if overhyped--has also transformed many just plain folks into sophisticated, independent investors. Thank the Beardstown ladies, for example, for the explosive growth in investment clubs, which have doubled in the past three years to 36,000, and are forming at the rate of 40 or so a day. Kenneth Janke, president of the National Association of Investors Corp., says the average club starts with 15 members, only one of whom has any investing experience. But after...