Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first fight was called a bore and a fraud. Sportswriters have been proclaiming for months they wouldn't go to the rematch if it were held in their own back yard. Boston chased the fight out of town and now it's being held in some godforesaken burg called Lewiston, Maine...
...council naturally gave much of the credit for continued prosperity to "constructive government policies," but it bore down heavily on a factor that has been a largely unsung hero of the expansion: the remarkable price stability of the last four years, which the council called "basic to the success of this expansion." Wholesale prices have remained virtually stable for 50 months, and the prices of industrial goods have remained within 1% of 1961 levels...
...which they severally appeared. They deal with 1) a pair of young movie stars who get their kicks from phoning strangers, 2) a girl who tries to become the model mistress for man after man after man, 3) a four-party orgy that is so permissive it becomes a bore, and 4) a young man who takes his fiancée's beloved dog to a vet to be killed, to a taxidermist to be stuffed, and then leaves it, displaying a lifelike snarl, in the middle of the floor to welcome her home. It's clear...
...production never drags. It does all that is humanly possible to curb Miller's obstinate philosophizing and heighten the playable moments in what seems on paper to be a pretentious bore. It is not so on the stage because the author, in spite of himself, has created real people...
...fabulous play about Benedict Arnold. James A. Culpepper hasn't. Treason at West Point never gets beyond exposition and tactics. The characters rarely come alive; some of them never even come into focus. The cast does a fine job with what they have, but the show's a bore...