Word: bothering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year foreshadowed his recent attack on Harvard when he charged that "some people are getting ripped off" in their college education. He urged parents to visit a college for several days and attend a dozen classes before sending their child to that school--something he didn't even bother to do before writing a speech of potentially national significance. Bennett has obviously decided that Harvard should be a principal target: this summer he cited Harvard's drug policy as an example of liberal leniency, and he has stated that he would rather give his son money to start...
...change a tire for three rubles. One time, the truck driver whom I flagged was surprised by my request, since he saw a strapping young man near my car. When he was finished changing my tire and I offered him a three- ruble note, he said, "Don't bother, mother, but you should teach your kid a lesson. What's the matter with him, is he sick or something that he can't change a tire...
...plotline is so secondary to the action that Jarmusch doesn't even bother to explain how the threesome escapes from their swamp-bound prison. The setting is just a convenient way for putting three strange people in the same room for a long time, just as Jarmusch did in his first film, Stranger than Paradise. In Paradise, the long pauses and spaced-out banality of the dialogue was so odd that it quickly became funny, similar to what might happen while watching 200 laundry detergent commercials in a row. Jarmusch dishes out more of the same in Law, only with...
...bother to film Verdi's Otello if you are going to omit its most famous aria, the haunting Willow Song, thus reducing Desdemona to a walk-on? Director Franco Zeffirelli never quite answers that question. The flamboyant Italian's 1983 cinematic version of La Traviata widened the opera's scope with tender reminiscences only implied in the libretto. In Otello, however, flashbacks to the Moor's slave childhood are maudlin, and Zeffirelli's camera, jumping edgily from storm to massed choruses to brawls and bedrooms, tires the mind. As Otello, Tenor Placido Domingo is in robust voice, and Bass Justino...
...child -- is that character no longer is related to destiny. If a community cares only for that sinister cliche the bottom line, then there is no community pressure on individuals to behave fairly and honorably. In a world of bottom lines, why should anyone -- say a child -- bother to improve a soul...