Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses V may have died of it. England's Queen Elizabeth I was so badly stricken at age 29 that she became bald and began wearing red wigs. Even George Washington bore its telltale scars. Their common affliction was smallpox, a fearful scourge with no known cure that until recently still took millions of lives* in Africa, Asia and other parts of the Third World. Now, after perhaps the most extraordinary disease-prevention campaign of all time, it may finally be wiped off the face of the earth...
...double life came as a total surprise to his two wives, who typically saw him for a few days a week before he would leave town on what he presumably described as "state business." Martin's Pierre-based first wife, Mary Lou, in her late 40s, who bore him four children, now aged eight to 25, moved with her husband from Kansas in 1967. She refused to comment on her husband's connubial commuting except to maintain stiffly: "This is not fact." Wife No. 2, Patricia, 34, with whom Martin had five children, now 14 months to nine...
...Royal "We" called on The Clock Maker (an unbelievably pretentious bore) to get out of town before sundown a month ago. Yet the sun keeps setting on this tale of a clock tinkerer whose son turns terrorist. Phillipe Noiret is still quivering with emotion for two hours, and anything more has failed to materialize. Director Taverneir is content to focus on Noiret's face forever--who need dialogue, plot, or motivations? Apparently not Taverneir. Noiret has an occasional temper tantrum, which might in some circles pass for character development. We, however, are still not buying...
...similarities it bore to last year's Harvard-Penn contest were as weird as the men's room at Lamont--a sluggish game, that the Crimson dominated throughout, an injury to Jim Kubacki on a slick tartan surface upon which he claims he enjoys playing, a final score which doesn't quite do justice to Harvard's superiority...
...would bore readers to list the discrepancies of Carter's statements during the campaign, and the dearth of specific proposals. He has not presented a comprehensive program, nor can one be comfortably pieced together from stray comments and rhetoric. But most importantly, we do not have a clear Carter philosophy. His record since his Georgia days does not reflect a consistent philosophy, but political opportunism. He now denies his support for George Wallace in 1972. The size of his defense cut has shrunk. His stand on the Panama Canal is a reaction to the conservative opinion Reagan mobilized...