Word: staying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come home. Laird Guttersen's blood pressure was so low after three months of torture, complicated by pneumonia, that parts of him lost all feeling when he remained still more than ten minutes. At night, instead of sleeping he used to lie in a feverish trance, shifting to stay alive, timing himself by the half-hour chimes of a distant clock. "When Laird came home we couldn't sleep in the same bed at first," remembers his wife Virginia, a frail, dark-blue-eyed wife who waited. "He shifted a quarter turn every five to ten minutes...
With so much going for it, it is hard to figure out why the Cambridge Acting Company chose such a turkey for its grand opener. The company clearly has the ability to do better, and if the actors want to stay in their slightly odd home, continuing to break the tradition of boys-will-be-girls fun, they'd better come up with something more inspiring next time out. The subject may, indeed, have been roses, but the product was boring...
...than the subway--you have to take a bus from the Orange Line to the beach. But it's worth the extra work because the each there is so much better than Revere (on the Blue Line, just before Wonderland). Paragon Park is actually an okay amusement park, but stay away from the antique roller coaster; the wooden frame that supports it tends to shake a lot when the roller coaster goes over it, and the boards underneath tend to bang around a lot, and make all sorts of other noises that aren't in the contract. Of course...
...went too far in trading off quality ingredients to get low prices. They may attract a lot of newcomers with those low prices, but we doubt many return. If you feel like checking it out anyway, just remember the words of someone we passed on the restaurant's stairs--"Stay away from the refrites, they could be repeatees." We didn't heed their advice. And we paid...
...football fans out there) is a classic, and the hot pastrami and cheese ranks up there with motherhood and the flag as something worth fighting for. The decor is, in a word, crummy (in two words, very crummy), but you can go somewhere else to digest, right? Two warnings: stay away from the place at lunchtime, when the Governor often has to call in the National Guard to keep the crowds in line, and beware of the pinball machines, which are about as generous and benevolent as Meldrim Thomson. But by all means don't pass this...