Word: boiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just wangled two tickets to a Naval Academy Glee Club concert in which his son was to appear. That unexpected display of emotion was memorable for its rarity, since Bud McFarlane is a man whom the word taciturn might have been invented to describe. But powerful emotions evidently boil behind McFarlane's studiedly enigmatic face, and last week they found a sad outlet...
Talking more in five seconds than most healthy adults talk in their natural lifetimes, this guy is a boil on the body politic. It's for school children, he says. Stop shaking my hand, I say. No, you misunderstand me, it's for school children, he says. You're annoying, I say. School children, he explains. Shut up, I explain...
...will raise its right arm, flash its eyes, open its hand, scuttle across the floor, make sharp turns, all at the press of a button or two. It will even speak with the child's taped voice and could conceivably serve as a referee for all the games that boil down to . . . blast...
Criticisms of Harvard theater boil down to three main points. It is poorly performed and boring; it is pretentious and boring; it is misguided and boring. As to inadequacy of performance, that is the price we pay for not having a Drama Department. The courses offered by the staff of the ART serve, with some exceptions, only as introductions to particular aspects...
...turned out the story was from The New York Times, which the White House has somebody read every morning to pick out the good stuff and boil it down for the President. That way Reagan doesn't have to wade through a lot of yawners about ballistic missiles and the War Powers...