Word: botherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generation now. As Cross points out, scholars don't need display cases; they have been getting along perfectly well with the collection in the basement all this time. Without an attraction like "Danzig" and the high-gear publicity that accompanied it, will the general public bother to stop in for a look...
...chatter and odor of the Howrah station in Calcutta to the more sympatico setting of Costa Rica, Theroux finds himself obsessed with a world beyond the borders of affluence and gratuitous soul-searchings. His proposition is pretty much a remedy for boredom--his own, and that of us who bother to take the train-rides with him. For what Paul Theroux writes about is little more than what Paul Theroux sees. His style unobjectionable and offhand. Theroux finds little more to say than what is most obvious. And that in itself can be entertaining especially if it's what...
Then the real barrage started: Midshipman Steve Acalin hit a long home run to left. Bob Dishman followed with a triple deep into the alley in right center. Left fielder Tom Kiser banged one over the 375 sign in left that Schindler didn't even bother to try for, giving the Midshipmen a 3-1 lead...
...series of skirmishes that could end only in conquest or stalemate, never détente. Who knows how to talk to them? A young man's sensible priorities- pro football, rhythm and blues, hanging out-were adolescent irrelevancies to his date, or even his mate. Then again, why bother? "You wanna talk," philosophizes one fellow in this terrific little comedy, "you always got the guys at the diner...
None of which, of course, seems to bother the President. For him, this latest masterpiece of indirection represents just one more shroud in which to cloak the shortcomings of his economic program...