Word: bores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most part, the spectators bore the cold and the crowding cheerfully. Many regulars had anticipated the need to see past the fellow patriots who surrounded the Green six deep. The rear of the crowd was a solid row of stepladders, chairs and kitchen stools...
...Hedda, played here by Holly Cate, is never a bore to watch. Cate portrays Hedda with proportionate coldness, but wisely refrains from histrionics. Hedda's fury isn't the tumultuous kind of a Lady Macbeth or a Medea. In her appropriately antiseptic delivery, Cate invokes the quiet strength of Ibsen's heroine...
...Satan is the focus of 'Paradise Lost'," he said. "Christ is a poetic disaster." Bloom also described Milton's God as a "catastrophe, an ill-tempered, sanctimonious bore who resembles Ronald Reagan...
...Both pitchers bore down," said Crowley, who collected three hits and an RBI in the second game, "and we just kind of rallied behind them...
North, who told Congress last summer that he and Poindexter were Iran- contra's designated "fall guys," bore the brunt of the indictment. Piled onto the conspiracy and obstruction charges were accusations that the Marine lieutenant colonel had embezzled $4,300 worth of traveler's checks and received an illegal gratuity by accepting a $13,800 home-security system from Secord...