Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which Yablonski was beaten up and often kept from speaking, Boyle's henchmen refused to reveal the location of many voting places, did not announce voting hours, electioneered at the polls and chased away poll watchers sent by the other camp. As a result, Boyle's totals bore only a casual relationship to the number of voters in the districts...
Since tunneling would be by the "deep bore" method, without surface contact, noise would be negligible, according to Cambridge Planning Office officials and the engineers making the study...
...King of Marvin Gardens is a skeletal version of Five Easy Pieces robbed of its vital flesh and muscle fabric. It is a blood brother of the genre established with Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces. These films bore the double burden of avoiding Hollywood debris and finding a voice independent of more practiced European avant-gardism. And they emerged as wholly American. Now Rafelson feels it his aesthetic duty to be new again. The problem is that his basic landscape hasn't changed, and so as be remodels his methods he sacrifices sincerity. The onetime pace-setter...
British royal families have long endured heavy schedules of public duties (opening a hospital here, launching a ship there or welcoming with royal flourish some visiting head of state). Elizabeth, Prince Philip and their brood have tried hard to give the impression that it is not all a big bore (see PEOPLE, page 42). Elizabeth herself, for instance, periodically goes on what palace aides call a "walkabout," strolling among crowds of her subjects, chatting casually with whomever she bumps into. She has become considerably sophisticated in the years since her coronation when, as one court observer puts it, she appeared...
...service station that doesn't give green stamps--such was one of the opening shots of liberal political satire in the 1960's. Vaughn Meader's impersonation of Kennedy on his album The First Family embodied two traditional characteristics of humorous caricature and parody. The imitation bore a superficial resemblance to its subject while the content made us aware that the impression was not the original. It felt good to laugh at a caricature that in its own ludicrous way reduced Kennedy to understandable human terms. Yet, we didn't need to feel that we were being disrespectful the very...