Word: bore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confident but not offensive, self-centered but no braggard. He intersperses his jokes with winks and smiles that expose the boyish split between his front teeth. However dubious people may consider his athletic achievements--six Mr. Olympia and five Mr. Universe titles--nobody can call him a bore. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a P.T. Barnum with muscles...
...strikingly they are deeply concerned with the sense among women for continuity of life--where you came from and where you're going. Kitchens and negliges are a matter of course here. If you can survive overuse of family pictures--which any film-maker should already know are a bore to anyone but their subjects--you'll find these films a refreshing approach to cinema...
Television coverage too had much to answer for. It only bore witness to, it did not instigate, Senator Percy's nasty innuendoes about tax evasion by Lance, and Percy's subsequent smarmy retraction. Moreover, TV's steady eye on the hearings produced what no amount of print reporting could do: a dramatic switch of public sympathy to Lance, who, despite the damaging admissions he had to make, carried himself more impressively under relentless scrutiny than any other congressional witness within memory...
...match with Jones came about because Margaret received a letter from Townsend announcing his plans to marry another. "That evening, I became engaged to Tony. It was no coincidence," Margaret told her friends. She has also revealed her doubts about remarrying: "It would probably be too much of a bore." Her steady date for theatergoing and vacations is Roderic ("Roddy") Llewellyn, a landscape gardener 18 years her junior who has lately removed his single earring and cut his shaggy locks. He will not, however, accompany Margaret on her official visit to the U.S. this month...
...many other actors who deserve star billing in the housing story far more than I. If you are to evaluate what was done, and how it was done, it would seem, only fair to examine why it was done. But frankly, such rehashing of the past is a bore...