Word: poring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...millionaire father (Denver Pyle) on the pretense of composing a battery of tunes for a superstar singer's next album. We see Carroll whisked from office to office, from bitter reunion to happy reunion, from boudoir to boudoir. A taciturn character by nature who oozes ennui from every pore, Carroll is everybody's darling, from his rags-to-riches dad who hasn't received a letter from his prodigal son in three years to the older women who roll out the red carpet for this slightly bewildered conquistador...
WHEN THE LEGISLATURE wrote the laws requiring candidates and political committees to report contributions and expenditures, there was at least a half-hearted expectation that contributions would become widely publicized. That hope has remained largely unfulfilled. It takes time and careful effort to pore over the contribution lists, which are complicated, sometimes confusing and often run 20 legal sized pages or more. Usually, such a detailed examination will not produce a front-page story, because there is generally nothing illegal or truly scandalous to be found. But what there is, is interesting, and illuminating of the way elections were...
...Swiss (1957)-"I wanted it to be almost like the tawny brown pelt of a Brown Swiss bull," he tells Met Director Thomas Hoving in the catalogue text-is not the work of small talent; and there are few American portraits that display such a stoic and irreducible density, pore by pore, as the bald head of The Finn...
...hired by the Brown administration to keep the libraries open during the ongoing strike by nearly 60 library workers--is unable to answer a student's question about a reserve book and refers him elsewhere. The student walks into the reference room, where he dejectedly begins to pore through the card catalogue...
...what he meant by saying that the people of Eastern Europe are not under Soviet domination. "Mr. Ford is hiding from the American people," charged Carter. "I call upon the American people to force Ford to tell the truth." "My God," moaned one newsman, "Ford is bleeding from every pore and Carter is going after more blood...