Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just back from that long road trip to my home in the suburbs, just in time to study for some tests. I stayed home for most of the vacation except for one foray outside the Boston area when I bore into the Big Apple, which was a Big Mistake...
...reservations about being under contract to the repressive Iranian regime. "The kids will enjoy riding the roller coaster and the log flume. This will tend to 'open up' the regime, I think. I have no problem with any sort of torture in this case, save that bore of riding on substandard log flumes or roller coasters...
...Paris premiere in 1861. By that time Wagner had written Tristan and was a much more sophisticated composer than he had been in 1845. The expanded bacchanal contains vivid writing, all right, but it is gripping stuff. The trimming back of the song competition in Act II?a bore in the original?is Wagner at his most judicious and, from the audience's point of view, kindest...
...years. Most of the demonstrators were Iranians studying in the U.S., including some who paid their own way to Washington and some who were assisted by student organizations. Wearing cardboard or muslin masks-to prevent Iranian secret police from photographing them, they said-the protesters bore slogans reading, SHAH: FASCIST MURDERER; SHAH IS A U.S. PUPPET; and CIA OUT OF IRAN...
Golda is a conscientious, reverential, monumental bore. The real Golda Meir should...