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Word: bore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...verge of both first love and first sex-is almost beside the point. It is quietly and sensitively told, and well-acted by a trio of neophyte actors, but, I would suspect that even for fifteen-year-old boys, the story is nonetheless something of a bore...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Movies Memory Tripping | 5/11/1971 | See Source »

...tour lasting until August. Cranko had sat through scores of Carmen operas, and he says "I always thought they were all wrong. If you see in Carmen nothing but a nymphomaniac who meets a tenor, seduces him, gets tired of him, then meets a bullfighter-it's a bore." Instead, he went back to the original Mérimée novel to help create Carmen as a shrewd, tough outcast-a gypsy in an age when gypsies were treated very much like blacks in an intolerant white society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Goyas and Dolls | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

Phil Collins led off the Harvard fifth with a walk. Vince McGugan doubled him home. After Ignaclo's ground-out, Dan DeMichele laced a double to center to score McGugan. Boynton bore down on Varney with his fastball, and he responded by sending one into the ether regions to give Harvard a 6-3 lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Stops Springfield Rally; Faces Tufts Today in GBL Clash | 5/5/1971 | See Source »

BUAA Nominating Committee Chairman Sanford Freedman argued Wednesday that the petitioners' statement seeking Davis's election as a symbol "bore no relevance to the election proceedings." Out of fairness, he said, the Committee had decided not to submit Ginsberg's statement with the ballots...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Brandeis Alumni Split Over Davis Candidacy | 4/23/1971 | See Source »

...Senate chairman, and is the girl friend of an army major. She lived in a house owned by Vo Van Mau, a deputy in the National Assembly, who is loyal to Thieu's regime. When police searched another of Mau's properties, they found vials that bore traces of heroin-about which Mau claimed to know nothing. A week later, Pham Chi Thien, another pro-administration deputy, was caught red-handed smuggling 8.78 lbs. of heroin from Laos, and now awaits trial. Thien's comely, 20-year-old travelmate slipped by airport police, but was arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Another Sort of H-Bomb | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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