Word: bothered
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...heading an organization advocating for increased grass-roots political power, was a "gadfly or hypocrite." The piece was titled "Pat Quinn - A Man Politicians Love to Hate," and it quoted him as saying, "I'm like a rolling stone gathering the moss of legislative opposition, but it doesn't bother me that much. I do it because someone has to try to make things better...
...means, "Cool it, Gort" and which was on every 12-year-old's lips a little more than a half century ago), a cross-species romance between Klaatu and an earth woman (Jennifer Connelly) that was once rather touching and now registers somewhere between fatuous and nonexistent. But why bother? Suffice it to say that these morons have, quite simply, turned The Day the Earth Stood Still on its head and what's falling out of its pockets in that upended state is a stream of junk. It does not have the charm of what little boys sometimes carry around...
...understanding" with the University's Materials Research center to work on college courses and a book on science and culinary creativity). He's even done a turn in the movies, playing the chef on the Spanish-language version of the animated Ratatouille. Some American magazines no longer even bother to identify him when they drop his name in print; he has become a personage everyone is expected to recognize...
...very power of these issues to determine our politics also means that they are too often delayed or simply avoided in our policy. “Democrats and Republicans will never agree,” the conventional wisdom declares, “Why even bother?” In the end, some of the past two decades’ most critical legislation was sacrificed to political expediency and Congress’s desperation to get something—anything—done. Comprehensive immigration reform was, after years of personal investment by President Bush, finally scrapped; ratification of the Kyoto...
...arrest our attention in fictional narrative. In some of the early Internet commentaries on this film, people natter on about the effect on the boy of having sex with an older, presumably exploitative woman - as if that's the big moral issue being explored here. Well, it didn't bother Oprah, who selected The Reader for her book club, and it doesn't bother me. At 15, boys are supposed to be having sex - or at least trying to have it. And I don't see how it is necessarily more scarring to have it with an experienced older woman...