Word: bore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brayton showed a streak of wildness in this fourth that almost cost him, walking, and wild pitching a runner to second. He then bore down to retire the side on three groundouts, stranding the runner on third...
...found your issue of March 20 from start to finish an absolute and utter bore...
...include congratulations at marriage, commiseration at divorce and condolences at death. Similar "reassurance displays" are also made on less momentous occasions. A teenager's friends will overreact to her new shoes: "Oh, let's see them. Oh, they're cute." In conversation, a remark from a bore, no matter how stupefying, may force his companions "to give a sign that he is qualified to speak." A good thing too, says Goffman, for "without such mercies, unsatisfactory persons would bleed to death from the conversational savageries performed on them...
Musically, Maria Stuarda is, alas, a considerable bore-much less inspired, say, than the same composer's Lucia di Lammermoor or Don Pasquale. The only reason to pluck it from obscurity now is to afford a singing actress like Sills the dual opportunity to make life look difficult and bel canto fioritura easy. That Sills can accomplish better than anyone in opera today...
...than a cause, her outside work is also a form of therapy. "I'm a very happy, contented person," she says. "I love being the way I am. But it's not that I haven't had burdens and hard knocks." Of the seven children she bore, one died at the age of 16, another is mentally retarded and institutionalized. Active in church and school work, she believes that "women need something besides kids. There's nothing more boring than women who talk about their babies, diapers and what they fix for dinner. If I couldn...