Word: botherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PART PARODY, PART TRIBUTE, Confidentially Yours is essentially an exploration of the director's divided feelings about the American thriller. While this dichotomy is at times interesting, for most of its two hours. Confidentially Yours is simply a thriller that does not thrill and a parody that doesn't bother to amuse you. You have to be very, very hooked on Truffaut himself to make seeing the movie worthwhile...
...when word filtered down the aisle: "He's going to answer something." No one knew what Mondale would be asked, or by whom, but they grabbed their notebooks and, grumbling and muttering, trudged back to the lobby. As it turned out, most of the reporters did not even bother to write down Mondale's remarks. Yet, as they reminded themselves, at least they had been there, just in case. That scene is typical of the life of presidential-campaign reporters, who are known, with only slight gender inaccuracy, as the boys...
...whole thing didn't seem to bother Cleary, though--With Yale falling to 5-9 and Cornell sinking to 5-10 (after a 6-3 loss at Vermont Saturday), Harvard's 7-7-1 conference record gives it the inside track to the Ivy division title and the accompanying ECAC playoff seed, And with the Beanpot starting tonight at 6-15, the Crimson has a red-hot goalie. Two periods of no offense not-withstanding, Cleary was pleased...
...killed or wounded in other incidents in France in the past year. At least seven, including a ten-year-old boy, were victims of snipers in the tense, ethnically mixed housing complexes outside Paris and other major cities. Racist harassment in Britain is so common that nonwhites no longer bother to report threats, insults or obscene letters to the police. In 1981 the Home Office found that West Indians were 36 times more likely to be racially attacked than whites, Asians 50 times...
...Republican parties or simple laziness. More people watched the last episode of the television series M * A * S * H than voted in the last Presidential election. The problem is particularly severe among college-aged students-of the some 28 million eligible to vote in 1980, 17 million did not bother to vote, while another 14 million did not even register...