Word: bore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University recognizes neither the final clubs nor any nationally-based organizations, but the fraternities' and sororities' influence has been spreading nonetheless. As recently as a year ago, only a few illicit posters put up at Harvard by students of other institutions bore Greek letters. Now, Harvard's own unofficial fraternities and sororities illegitimately publicize their functions on the University's kiosks...
...already ripped through all the stages of rock stardom in record time. The group has sung about restless youth (the song Jeremy became a bona fide rock anthem), it has established an adversarial relationship between itself and everyone else on the planet (the band's last album bore the confrontational title Vs.), and, yes, it's made the inevitable pilgrimage to MTV Unplugged. Now what? Having gone from larva to butterfly, does the band flutter to the ground, its brief season done? Not exactly. Pearl Jam's vigorous new CD, Vitalogy, shows that, having come...
...Crimson came out primed in the second. Sophomore big man Darren Rankin was called for his third foul of the game and was summarily sent to the pine in the first few minutes of the half, but his teammates bore on. They crept closer one turnaround jump shot at a time, despite allowing the taller Engineers a bevy of easy buckets. With 14:11 left, Harvard trailed by five, 46-41. With 13:20, Harvard trailed by four, 47-43. With 9:49 left, Harvard trailed...
...been jailed, but she was forced to continue living with her retarded mother and her alcoholic grandfather because, wrote Forer, "it was the policy . . . to keep the family together." Also Tyrone, 8, whose father, a boxing trainer, had beaten him so badly for wetting his bed that he bore 70 permanent scars: "No agency would even attempt to find placement for Tyrone; the family should be kept together...
Risking Scrooginess, one might observe that commonsensical immunity to whimsy may be a bore, but even when carried to the grim lengths exhibited here, it's not a major cause of familial dysfunction. But forget that; we don't go to the movies, especially Christmas movies, expecting much in the way of useful social commentary. What's really wrong with these pictures -- Attenborough's sweet, smart performance aside -- is that their sentiments are completely predictable and completely unfelt. They're just the standard seasonal slush. You can get the same emotional and imaginative kick staying home and rereading your Christmas...