Word: botherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illustrious rival. "My very first game as a 31-year-old college coach, I had to go to Tuscaloosa and play Alabama. They creamed us 31-3. Welcome to the big time, Vince. But the next year we beat them 18-17. His shadow doesn't bother me. I've had my successes...
...attempt to transfer Popeye from the cartoons to the movies might have been doomed from the start. After all, why bother having people do what animated figures do better? Moreover, no movie can keep up with the breakneck pace of a cartoon. Yet Altman seems to have all the ingredients for a blockbuster film. He succeeds in creating a busy visual and auditory atmosphere, but he fails to take advantage of his opportunity for free play on several levels. As just two examples, he throws in a few bits of scatological humor, and completely avoids using the Popeye story...
...hunger, propelled him away; and no doubt he .realized long ago that no overachiever is ever thanked at home. Not while he's achieving. Of the registered voters in his home district, 505 voted for Carter, 174 voted for Reagan, Clark or Anderson, and 282 didn't bother to vote...
...homage to macho history, from God the Father to Mahatma Gandhi and Frank Sinatra-all represented by china penises, propped up by quantities of Laurentian burblings about roots, darkness and the archetypal perceptions of the blood. Who, today, would take such an effusion seriously, and what museum would bother with it? To represent Virginia Woolf as a clump of pottery labia majora is on a par with symbolizing Mozart as a phallus. It mashes the complex truths of a great artist's life and work into one obsessive stereotype-all in the name of "history...
...TIME WHEN race relations on campus and around the country appear to be growing more strained, some in the production staff of Vinette Carroll's Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope worried that the show might inflame racial tensions. The gamble, however, pays off successfully, and the all-Black cast with their rhythm and bluesy score cut across racial boundaries by presenting life's frustrations, pains, rewards and hopes in a tender and human way. The production's air of naive amateurism, though unintentional, ends up bringing the actors' feelings closer to the audience, creating an atmosphere...