Word: botherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since few Americans bother to learn more than rudimentary Spanish, town life is largely divided between "them and us." An English-language theater group performs regularly, and a country club, an American Legion post and numerous garden and bridge organizations serve as gathering spots. To keep occupied, many turn to charity work. American residents fund an orphanage and a home for indigent Mexicans. They arrange visits by American medical specialists to treat Mexicans. Last June Obregon Street in Ajijic was resurfaced, courtesy of the foreign community. Says Kay Pike, a retired actress who moved to Chapala four years...
Some of the athletes are near collapse at the end of long races in the high- 90s heat, and medics cool the runners down with towels soaked in ice water. But Eric Tosada, a springy 18-year-old track man from Puerto Rico, doesn't even bother to sit down after clicking off 3,000 meters in 9 min. 38 sec., a new world record for Special Olympians. (The overall world record is 7 min. 32.01 sec.) He bounces around delightedly, and comes to prideful attention when his picture is taken. Another kind of athletic accomplishment is that of George...
...group of some 400 stores worldwide. Priscilla and Sebastian shook the dowdiness out of the Mothercare line, emphasizing colorful clothes made of natural fibers. "We wanted to get rid of that cynical attitude among mass-market retailers who say, 'Oh, these people don't have any taste, why bother,' " explains Conran. "People can only buy what they're offered, so their taste is made by what they're offered...
...fight it. I'm not with any man. I'm not in love. People see Robyn with me, and they draw their own conclusions. Anyway, whose business is it if you're gay or like dogs? What others do shouldn't matter. Let people talk. It doesn't bother me because I know I'm not gay. I don't care...
That is the argument often made under the First Amendment by civil libertarians, and never more urgently than today. If you don't like it, they say, don't watch it, read it, listen to it or buy it. But also, don't bother people whose tastes differ from yours. In a less toxic age, Thomas Jefferson rhetorically asked, "Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?" Today Comic George Carlin puts it this way: "On the radio there are two knobs. One turns it off; the other changes the station...