Word: bores
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Here was a man out of place. A slender man dressed in a stylish business suit, he sat by himself, night after night, in the bustling entryway of the Dunlevy Milbank Center in the middle of Harlem. His narrow face bore a trusting smile that masked a dogged purpose. He was trying to teach a course on human sexuality for neighborhood parents, and often nobody came. But he kept showing up. Michael Carrera, professor and prophet, understood that as a white man and an outsider he needed the parents' support if he wanted to come to their community to help...
...bore down, forcing Wallin to pop up to third. He got Connelly to hit a ground ball for an out at the plate. And then he threw strikes--three of them past Eagle outfielder Mike Kopfler to escape from...
...back to Talbot's story in Close Quarters (1987). Fire Down Below completes Talbot's memoirs and provides a glimpse of the older man who wrote them. He has evidently done well for himself: "Only the other day the Prime Minister himself said, 'Talbot, you're becoming a deuced bore about that voyage of yours...
...full-length feature but, without the distractions of spectacle or subplot, makes flaws more obvious. In these circumstances, Scorsese and Allen have a natural advantage. Their core following is not big enough to support the grand movie gesture, and they have learned the art of compression that seems to bore, if not actually depress, their ever thrashing colleague...
...beat them repeatedly. One of the youngsters escaped; the team released two others after 2 1/2 weeks; and the body of the fourth, a 14-year-old named Stompie Mokhetsi, was located last week in a mortuary where it had lain unidentified for more than five weeks. It bore stab wounds in the throat. Meanwhile, a football-team member, Maxwell Madondo, 19, was found hacked to death in Soweto...