Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This melange of skimmed milk is a thorough bore throughout, and the only part I really enjoyed was when I had a short nap. There is no fault to be found with the cast, but the play itself, the plot, the dreary scenery, the monotonous songs and the tinsely imitation of Ziegfeld's gorgeous costumes are not to be believed...
...estranged Castro from his quondam admirers. "The pit between Cuba's leaders and the non-Communist European or Latin American Left is being dug deeper," wrote Marcel Niedergang, a longtime friend and supporter of Castro, in France's Le Monde. For his part, Fidel turned his big-bore verbal artillery against the intellectuals. "So they are at war with us," said Castro in a Havana speech. "Magnificent! They are nothing more than brazen pseudo-leftists who instead of being here in the trenches live in the bourgeois salons 10,000 miles from the problems. They are going...
Cornell threatened for the first time in the eighth when lead-off batter Pilky walked and stole second. But Kelly bore down and got the next two batters on infield outs that did not advance the runner. Wlikeski ended the threat with a line shot right at short stop Art Serrano...
Driven by an ego which bore the marks of the Hollywood imagination, and blinded by a naivete of fundamental American social and political realities that prevented him from receiving that the media does not give constant attention gratis, King decided that he "could never go back-never go back to being just a minister...
...those who were already on it." Yet the life raft did not prove quite roomy enough. "By a brutal twist of fate, unexpected, undesired, unconsidered by the early pioneers," adds Elon, the price of establishing a Jewish homeland "was partly paid by the Arab inhabitants of Palestine. The Arabs bore no responsibility for the centuries-long suffering of Jews in Europe; yet in the end, the Arabs were punished because of it. Whatever [the Arabs'] subsequent follies and outrages might be, [their] punishment for the sins of Europe must burden the conscience of Israelis for a long time to come...