Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some point that spring the devil in Kimberly Rath's high began to bother her. The highs were black most often. And she latched on to another dream that spring, this one of the Natural Life, of life on a farm with time and fresh air and smal pleasures. She talked, tiresomely so, Harley says, of the "simple things, man, the simple things, you've just got to cut out all the crap, man, get down to where your soul...
...Governor immediately professed that he knew nothing about the incident. In terms unfortunately reminiscent of those used by another politician under fire, he claimed that he had been too busy running the state to bother with such trivial matters as raising campaign funds...
...then, even bother with Vespri? Why should the Metropolitan Opera, currently some $3,000,000 in debt, go to the time, trouble and expense of mounting the opera for the first time in its 90-year history? Fair questions, which were not entirely answered by the premiere performance at Lincoln Center last week. Yet the Met's brief for Vespri contains any number of good points. Conductor James Levine and Stage Director John Dexter eliminated a half-hour's worth of ballet (wisely, considering the Met's declivity for dance) and edited the work down to three...
Dean Rosovsky said that "the principle behind the motion doesn't bother me at all." Since the practical principle behind it, like the principle behind a lot of the administration's actions, seemed to be some sort of centralization or homogeneity in the Houses, maybe it wasn't too surprising. At least, unlike Kiely's problems, it didn't interest The Boston Globe...
...stature in the House to break with Lyndon Johnson on the war. "Tip," said Johnson, "I never thought you'd do this to me." Fearful that his district would turn on him, O'Neill sold his position so effectively that the G.O.P. did not even bother to run a candidate against him in 1968, or since...