Word: bothers
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Garvey admits that he and his brothers and often seen as a group, not as individuals. But he doesn't let that bother him at all. In fact, "I like it. We are a family. That's the way it should be. I don't mind being thought of as a group, because I have a lot of respect for my brothers...I'm proud to have my brother out there on the football field with me. And I'm proud to have my other brother be captain of the freshman team...
...decent horror movie or comic has to believe in the silly premise it is executing; it has to set up it's own peculiar sequence of cause and effect, even with the most rudimentary means ("So professor, tell us about this ancient curse, etc., etc.,") Creepshow doesn't even bother to do this...
...display is obviously just another example of the U. N. calling Israel to task for the sort of things it doesn't bother to--or cannot muster a majority vote for--calling other nations to task for, Ironically, the display goes up in the same week that the U.S. embassy estimated the death toll this past year alone in El Salvador to be 5,639, more than half of which were civilians. There seems, alas, no El Salvador photo display in the offing. Nor were there photo displays of the athletes slaughtered at the Munich Olympics...
...been so bitter. Our generation of writers hoped that after de-Stalinization started in 1956, we might restore Russian literature to its mother, European culture. But since the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, there has been no chance of change. Now real writers don't even bother to submit their work to Soviet publishers...
...reference to the toilet seat and the wretch's need to hang on to it. Sckacks means ugly. A two-bagger is a girl who requires exactly that to cover her ugliness. Young women, of course, retaliate. At breakfast in Bates Hall at Wellesley, they wonder, "Why bother with a guy if he doesn't make your teeth fall out?" Time to book means time to leave, which can also be time to bail. None of this is exactly brilliant. Slang is sometimes merely a conspiracy of airheads...