Word: bore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later, Berri, who is also Lebanon's Minister of Justice, organized his own show of "justice," though it bore no direct relation to either of last week's explosions. Amal militiamen bound and blindfolded Mohieddin Saleh, 22, a Sunni Muslim they charged with trying to set off a car bomb three months earlier, then took him to a playground near the Rawdat Shahidain Cemetery. As a crowd of 1,000 looked on, Amal executioners stepped up to the prostrate Saleh and pumped seven machine-gun rounds into his face and body. The grisly execution tragically bore out the lament...
...Pasquini run the chapter in Springfield, Mass., which coordinates efforts in New England. It claims 1,000 members and has staged pickets at 30 adult-magazine outlets in the region. The group's relentless pressure on the Rhode Island-based CVS drugstore chain, along with the commission letter, apparently bore fruit last month: the company announced it was removing Playboy and Penthouse from its 600 shops...
...infected. Would a vaccine come next? The atmosphere at the second annual AIDS congress, held last week at the cavernous Palais des Congres in Paris, was considerably more subdued. Although the world's leading AIDS experts were among the more than 2,500 doctors and scientists in attendance, they bore few encouraging tidings. Speaker after speaker acknowledged that neither a vaccine nor a cure is in sight for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, the deadly disease that destroys the body's ability to combat infection. Moreover, they said, AIDS is still spreading and poses a threat around the globe. Among the findings...
...Would speeches become superficially short, chopped into glib "sound-bites" for the nightly news? Or worse, would they be too long, as Senators postured on parochial issues for cable-TV addicts back home? And what if viewers discovered that "the world's greatest deliberative body" was often a crashing bore? Senator J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana complained quite accurately that the Senate's archaic rules and long, meandering speeches would not air well. "Unlimited debate," Johnston reminded his colleagues, "is not pretty." But TV is everywhere in America, and because of it, the White House and the House of Representatives...
...ordinary life that gives it trouble. In writing Burgess for himself, Alda has imbued the character with his own well-known and entirely admirable traits. He is intelligent and well spoken. He is kind and decent. He is a man of reason. He is also something of a bore. Alda lacks the air of dangerousness that movie stardom requires. That is why his great success as a performer has been on television, where week in, week out, agreeableness makes a star. In his last feature, The Four Seasons, however, he was successful because he integrated himself into an ensemble...