Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blockheaded factory worker -a model product of the Stalinist old regime. Representing the newer, more relaxed style of Communism are his cheeky blonde mistress (Jana Brejchová) and an impudent young cynic (Josef Abrhám), who refuses to echo Kačer's unquestioning beliefs. A puritanical bore who turns off friends and fellow factory workers, Kačer is beaten in a beer hall by resentful colleagues, ultimately comes to realize that his pompous pronunciamentos can no longer be the life of the Party. Obviously influenced by the early Antonioni, Director Evald Schorm, 36, shows his courage...
...discovery, all public interest in Morton Cooper's novel should wane-although it probably won't. The author and his publisher have aimed it confidently at the bestseller list, although Cooper's literary defects and unerring tastelessness would fill an office wastebasket. Orlando is an unmitigated bore tirelessly indulging his libido, yearning to become head of the White House's Cultural Exchange program-a prize ultimately denied him. The book is so bad that Bennett Cerf of Random House, who used to distribute books published by Bernard Geis, refused to handle it. Some say this happened...
...Before you are inundated with letters from critics of the U.S. pavilion at Expo 67 [June 2], I must tell of my own delight. The country with the best and biggest of everything does not bore visitors with a salesroom or the insides of factories. How refreshing! Besides dollars and engineering brains, Americans have heart, foolishness, creative hands. The apple corer dreamed up by some ingenious Yankee, the hand sewing machine, the wooden-paddle washing machine were all forerunners of today's American technology. Should anyone doubt it, the space capsules swinging aloft will remind him. Yes, there...
...York, which bore the brunt of 1965's Northeast blackout, was spared when automatic relays opened to cut it off from the interconnection. That stroke-and the fact that it was a bright, clear day-saved the area from the near catastrophe that engulfed it on the night of Nov. 9, 1965, when 30 million people, over 80,000 sq. mi., spent up to twelve frantic hours in the dark...
...real case against Lucy is not that she is "unsympathetic"-some of the greatest characters in fiction are-but that she is theatrically unsatisfying and an ear-jarring bore. Saddest of all, Philip Roth's second novel starts beautifully, with a fine evocation of the Wisconsin mood and climate and the skillful and sympathetic drawing of Willard Carroll, an assistant postmaster, one of the few "good" men in contemporary fiction. But then Lucy, Carroll's granddaughter, takes over in a truly venomous fashion, and the book strives embarrassingly to become a Midwestern Madame Bovary. It is bewildering that...