Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fight'... We desperately need a contest." That answer doesn't satisfy New York's Lieutenant Governor Mario M. Cuomo, a Carter Seib of the Post supporter. He accuses the press of being "in love with Ted Kennedy" and adds: "Jimmy Carter is a bore, and I think the media cannot tolerate a bore. That's not the way to pick a President...
...poorly understood, medical researchers have recently been focusing on a blood protein that is unusually high in some victims of the disease. But a cure seems far off, and Courtemanche and the foundation are concentrating their efforts on showing victims how to live with the disorder. Says Courtemanche: "Merrick bore up with tremendous dignity and grace. You have to develop an inner peace with yourself - otherwise you're just condemned to a living hell...
...society's mighty engines of banality can reduce anything to a bore, and death, the fad that replaced tennis, has lately been talked to death. A viewer may approach Promises in the Dark with some wariness, therefore, because the subject of the film is a 17-year-old girl's death after a long battle with cancer. But Promises is clear, direct and honest, and free of both cant and sentimentality. It is also lively, in the exact sense of the word; the flow of intelligence and feeling between Buffy, the sick girl, and her family and friends...
...have problems. You have PROBLEMS. BIG PROBLEMS. And they all MEAN SOMETHING. Every coffee stain on the dining room table, every trip to the vet for the family dog's shots, every play in the Little League baseball game. And I," Updike goes on, "am here to bore into each one with my unrelenting literary jackhammer. I will drill until I hit vast and oceanic symbolism...
...bore them? Bertolucci commits the ultimate cinematic crime: his film is stultifying dull. Luna excites little besides yawns and the desire to leave the theater. By the time Jill Clayburgh has mouthed her last aria, most of the audience at the Sack Cheri were long gone. Approximately two hours, Luna seems an eternity spent in limbo. Hell, in the form of a truly low-grade bad movie would have been more exciting...