Word: bore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fabulous. Now The Boring Institute is boring, too. Dry as dust. It's just another self-important voice crying out in a noisy wilderness. Which makes sense, because Alan Caruba comes off as somewhat of a bore himself. He repeats jokes, over and over. He rambles. He says the same thing to every reporter. He quotes bumper stickers. He vows to make "an endless series of boring speeches until Congress bends to my will...
...Ph.D. in Russian and Chinese history, has followed Boris Yeltsin since 1989 and has twice interviewed the Russian leader. When he visited New York City in 1989, Aikman recalls, "I once had to practically leap upon his back to stop him from crossing Second Avenue as a garbage truck bore down upon the intersection. He turned around gratefully, grinned, and said, 'The KGB would not be pleased to know that you may have saved my life.' " Instead, as our story explains, Yeltsin's career is prospering...
...Obvious Child, from his album The Rhythm of the Saints, and kept up the momentum with 2 1/2 hours of undulating, Afro-Caribbean-flavored music. The older songs that were included were transformed, including a reggae-tinged Bridge over Troubled Water and a percolating version of Cecilia that bore only a glancing resemblance to the original. Overall: no Art, but plenty of artistry...
...dance of death." Observes Frank Stanton, the former chairman of Simmons Market Research Bureau: "Pandemonium is a good word to describe the business now." Shaken by the instability in the industry, many agencies are only making the problem worse by retreating to ideas that seem safe -- but that may bore consumers and further alienate clients...
...danger of being outlawed by a church- backed bill under consideration in Poland's parliament. At an outdoor Mass in Radom, the Pontiff compared abortion to the Holocaust and sternly asked, "What parliament has the right to say, 'You are free to kill'?" The polite applause bore witness to Poles' growing ambivalence toward church interference in government policy. According to recent surveys, almost 60% of Poles oppose the antiabortion bill and consider the church's influence in public life "excessive...