Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN THE CONCERT STARTED, the sun bore down on the field and the Grateful Dead played a four hour set. Normal Dead enthusiasm was diffused by the sun which scorched into brains which had much of their juices drained by various portions of beer, wine, liquor, LSD, THC, MDA, quaaludes, sopors -- and some horse tranquilizer was reported as well. THC and acid were being sold for $2 a hit in plastic prescription bottles. Someone said there wasn't much Drano around like there was at Woodstock...
...Southwick that the incredible success had surprised him a little. Later on in the campaign, Danny told me that Watergate was the only chance McGovern had to recover completely from the Eagleton affair, but he did say that in certain key areas McGovern was gaining at a rate which bore watching and hoping. At the time, Watergate didn't convince me as a redeeming issue, but Porter insisted that if enough came out, it could work...
Wholly unsatisfied, Republican Senator Howard Baker bore in with emotion. "Would you tell me, Mr. Mitchell, what is your perception of the institution of the presidency?" Replied Mitchell with a smile: "Is that part of the purpose of this committee, to ascertain from me the perception of the presidency?" Insisting that this was highly relevant, Baker asked: "Is the presidency so shrouded in mystique, is there such an aura of magnificence about the presidency, is there such an awe some responsibility . . . that the presidency in some in stances must be spared the detail, must be spared the difficulty of situations...
Mitchell's answer was baffling: "The President cannot deal with all of the mun dane problems that go on from day to day. He had to deal with the greater problems." But then he made his point: "He should not have been involved in these matters that bore directly upon his election, and he should have been protected from the knowledge of them...
...full-length Tales of Hoffmann based on the Offenbach opera. Introduced last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center by the American Ballet Theater, it is a shocker of another sort: an oldfashioned, behind-the-times entertainment that will offend no one, please some of the public, and bore serious balletomanes to distraction...