Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bake sale at the Science Center yesterday. As passers-by ate brownies, PSLM members discussed the group's push for Harvard to pay a minimum of $10 per hour to every employee...
These spaces are, to varying degrees, children of the alternative-spaces movement of the 1970s, which was a great push on the part of artists to create their own institutions to exhibit their own work just the way they want, without having to deal with stuffy curators or pushy gallery directors looking for the next big-bang art star. Some of the spaces now in Boston, like Bromfield and Mobius, started in the '70s; others have started up more recently, but with much the same spirit. While a few spaces, like Kingston and Mills, resemble commercial galleries, most are more...
...difficult to get oneself excited by it. But suitably starved for thrills, this crowd of 500 or so camouflage-clad boot campers swallowed the whole show with a hoot and a holler. We (and I use the pronoun liberally) dangled candy in front of the fat wrestlers, yelled for push-ups from the fit ones, and screamed platoon slogans at one another. The usual stuff, and loved by most. The Army is full of wrestling fans, like your local bar - and for a couple of hours we found a similar escapism...
...been a very long time. (Todd does 10 push-ups) There's ten for you, now like compared to the guys that spend all day at the gym. That's pretty pathetic...
...reception isn't good news for King's family, who are hoping to use the decision to help push for a new federal investigation that, it believes, would uncover a conspiracy involving the FBI and the Army. "That's just not going to happen," says TIME national correspondent Jack E. White. "The assassination occurred in 1968, so many witnesses are dead, have changed their stories or have failing memories. There's almost no reason to think that a new investigation could produce any new insight...