Word: bores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Washington pledged to bring Chicago together, visiting Black leaders bore differing conclusions over the stability of the traditional national Democratic coalition of Black and white interests in light of Chicago's election...
...night this reviewer saw The Marriage the children in the audience enjoyed themselves immensely, rarely turning to adults for an explanation of a joke. And although The Marriage makes no pretensions to be more than a simple comedy, it won't bore those who have graduated from fairy tale. The play is genuinely funny; the humor never drags, and only one or two bad puns seem more deserving of a groan than a laugh. There may be much to explain, but there's plenty to enjoy...
...accumulate proteges, and within two weeks of her arrival she is heavily involved in the lives of a career doctor who lives downstairs: a once promising teenage ballet dancer newly crippled in a car accident: a young bishop who looks strikingly like a man by whom Katherine secretly bore a child: and the bishop's retired predecessor, Felix Bodeway, who also figured in a previous L 'Engle novel about Katherine's youth...
...secret discussions bore fruit last Thursday in a meeting in the Speaker's office that included O'Neill, Stockman, Democratic Whip Thomas Foley, Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas and Presidential Aides James Baker, Richard Darman and Kenneth Duberstein. The $4.3 billion package, which will create only 125,000 new jobs, contains less than first meets the eye. It is mainly the acceleration of scheduled projects, and thus involves only about $700 million in new spending. But from a symbolic standpoint, it allows the Democrats to claim a victory for the jobless while allowing Reagan to meet...
Funderburk, who maintains that he has no plans to cut back the liberal arts, argues that the budget crunch forced economies in all areas and that the library bore its fair share. He has since secured $300,000 in additional funding for the library. "I shifted the emphasis to salaries and keeping as many people as I could," he says of his general philosophy. Indeed, under Funderburk, no one on the teaching staff has been laid off because of a lack of money. Funderburk claims that his efforts to strengthen the agriculture and engineering programs are simply a response...