Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the forecast calling for hot, sunny weather this weekend, the best sporting thing you can do is get out there and do it up yourself. In December you'll wish...
This is kind of a quiet weekend for rock music in Beantown and environs. But if you really need your dose of spine-crunching bass and screaming, indecipherable lyrics, you'd do well to catch the Ramones at the Paradise (967 Comm Ave, Boston), Friday through Sunday at 9. New wave and all that, y'know? Actually, the Ramones, authors of that disgusting hit single "Rockaway Beach," are the kind of group that gives some of the more serious New Wave artists a bad name. Avoid, unless you want to see teenagers no more talented than...
...annual cheese-squeezing championships, one of the world's lesser-known sporting events, will take place this weekend in fabulous Lynnfield. Take Route 1 north to the Dairy Queen, turn right, and keep going. The exciting Brie quarter-finals begin Sunday...
Looking around the station you see the usual weekend crowd, multiplied by a special Fourth of July factor, streaming across the platforms to the Manhattan-bound trains. It is a white, albeit well-tanned crowd: Jamaica Station is the terminal stop for all the trains coming in from the Hamptons and the other smoking-jacket resorts on Long Island, and affluence hangs heavy in the air on a holiday weekend. Young couples, sleek tans glistening under alligator shirts and Gucci shorts, tote their tennis rackets on top of their other luggage; a slightly older woman, just beginning to lose...
Life is tough, you repeat to yourself, but the memories of your own rather pleasant weekend, filled with morning sails and evening gins-and-tonic, gives you the strength to fight off any and all twinges of upper-middle-class guilt. Back to the newspaper, which offers little solace: the holiday weekend; it reports, featured a grand total of 15 murders, not including the 150 or so wounded in the explosion of an ice-cream truck in Manhattan. And the summer hasn't even begun...