Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ronstadt also skillfully handles songs that are more challenging to interpret. An excellent arrangement and some strong vocal accompaniment by Andrew Gold and Kenny Edwards supplement Ronstadt's wide ranging but perfectly controlled performance on "Many Rivers to Cross," a rather clumsily-worded song that could easily be a bore. Ronstadt has never been more relaxed and poised than in "Tracks of My Tears," an unremarkable retread recorded by performers ranging from Smokey Robinson to Aretha Franklin to Johnny Rivers. Her subtle interpretation infuses it with a genuine but understated pathos. The song is striking proof of Ronstadt's artistic...
...particularly her recent poetry, aloud. "I have found myself having to read these poems aloud to myself," she tells Orr. "My first book, The Colossus, I can't read any of the poems aloud now. I didn't write them to be read aloud. In fact, they quite privately bore me." Later, Plath seems to be intrigued by the idea of oral poetry...
...grand old dream of escape from civilization to an island Eden has been thoroughly polluted, not least by the fact that this family comes not from Switzerland but from suburbia. They seem to have plenty of food and water out there on their atoll, but they are going to bore themselves to death in a month or so-and the viewer with them. Richard Schickel
...later performed brilliantly during the U.S. Civil War. Had he been educated by the Russian side, Knightley might have recalled that a young second lieutenant brought the horrors of the Crimean War home to Moscow with his articles from Sevastopol. They miraculously passed through the censors untouched, and bore the byline Leo Tolstoy. R.Z. Sheppard
...engaged in the painful search for a desaparecido [missing person]. The alleged corpse of my brother, Luis Guendelman Wisniak, not only had part of the coccyx bone−which in his case had been removed when he was five years old−but also its twisted denture bore no resemblance. The miraculously uncharred plastic identification card was ripped and sealed with metal staples, the last name was misspelled, the photograph and fingerprint were not that of Luis, and the signature was unmistakably forged...