Word: bore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tbilisi. A heavy pall of black smoke hung over the parliament building, where artillery shells had blown away huge chunks of the walls. On nearby Rustaveli Avenue only the scorched facades remained of graceful pastel houses. Gutted buses, twisted car wrecks and hundreds of scattered machine-gun cartridges bore silent witness to the ferocity of the fighting, which, officials said, left at least 90 people dead. Some estimates put the total closer...
Exhausted and disappointed, we returned to the hamlet. For dinner we ate crackers and sardines. Most of the villagers dined on sticky rice and manioc. The distended bellies of half a dozen naked toddlers bore testimony to the fact that some had no evening meal...
...told him he still couldn't figure out why the Name made such a hasty exit from Dallas: 36 hours after the assassination, he left town and hitchhiked 2,000 miles north to Michigan. Another buff had theorized that the Warren Commission was interested in the Name because he bore an eerie physical resemblance to Oswald -- which might have been an innocent explanation for some of the "Oswald" sightings in Ruby's Carousel Club. Other buffs wondered if he might not be one of the mysterious "Oswald impersonators" who was setting up the real, innocent Oswald to be the assassination...
...creators whose credits range from Gypsy and West Side Story through Applause and Annie to Miss Saigon, cast with three Tony Award winners and designed by two more, Nick & Nora should have absolutely everything going for it. But the show that opens on Broadway this week is a crashing bore -- cranky and arbitrary as a love story, tedious and pointless as a murder mystery, ham-handed as comedy, clubfooted as dance, at best wanly pleasant as music. A few scenes work, some quite well. The final 10 minutes achieve a truth and simplicity underscoring the barren brittleness of what...
...airstrip not to capture the smugglers -- both of whom escaped -- but to protect them. Last week an investigation by Mexico's National Commission on Human Rights, aided by videotapes of the scene taken by U.S. Customs agents flying overhead, concluded that the local regional commander, General Alfredo Moran Acevedo, bore the major responsibility for the deaths. Arriving at the scene with reinforcements, after receiving at least two telephone warnings that his men were shooting at drug agents, he continued the attack. Although the report charged that Moran, his four top assistants and 14 soldiers had violated both military and civilian...