Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fish. Legal (5 Cambridge Center, 64 Arlington St., Boston, and 43 Boylston St., Chestnut Hill) serves up the freshest catch of the day simply and expertly. Sample their steamers and sip famous strawberry daiquiries while you wait for your table. Sitting in the lounge amid the varied aromas may push your patience to the limit, but it's worth the wait...
...hide in my bedroom, where I felt safe. I would actually call out, "Safe" to myself. When I was about 13, one local bully gave me nothing but grief all year long. He would knock me down on the grass, or hold my head in the drinking fountain, or push my face in the dirt and give me bloody noses when we had to play football in phys. ed. Once he threw a cherry bomb between my legs in the school toilet. I got up before it exploded. This was somebody I feared. He was my nemesis; I dreamed about...
...Systems, a venture with Aetna and Comsat that was designed to provide data and telephone communications mainly for large corporations. The operation, however, has not been successful, losing $1.3 billion in the past eleven years. IBM eventually bought out Aetna and Comsat. Despite that setback, IBM has continued to push ahead into telecommunications. Last year it bought Rolm, the third-largest maker of telephone switching equipment, for $1.2 billion. IBM and Merrill Lynch have created International MarketNet, a service that supplies information to the financial community. And IBM has joined Sears and CBS in a venture called Trintex...
...freedom means choice, then Baryshnikov reveled in it, pursuing myriad options. He has worked with a dozen or so choreographers. With Twyla Tharp's brilliant Push Comes to Shove (1976), his flair for comedy burst out. In 1977 he became a Hollywood star, playing a famous dancer in The Turning Point. (Another film, White Nights, will be released at Christmas.) The lorn Petrouchka began to seem like a Slavic Jimmy Cagney...
...shtetl atmospherics are thick in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach neighborhood, home to a majority of the several thousand Russian immigrants, most of them Jewish, who arrive each year. Near the boardwalk, babushkas at a swing set push grandchildren, while over at the M&I International food store, women who spent last summer in Odessa this summer buy kapchonka (dried fish), Yugoslavian black-currant syrup and Borjouri seltzer water direct from Soviet Georgia. El Mundo III in Jackson Heights is one of the city's 6,500 bodegas, tiny mama-y-papa Hispanic grocery stores that sell fresh coconuts and plantains...