Word: borede
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Times are shaky in the fashion world. Business is flat, department stores an endangered species, customers bored. Amid the unending cycle of sales and the unmapped racks that cram discount outlets, the industry is looking hard for what it calls direction. Anything goes now -- minis, dirndls, see-throughs, slouches -- but...
Mabel Osborne, 85, had spent two years sick in bed when she read about a SeniorNet class in Dallas. She signed up and made an important discovery. "I wasn't sick," she says. "I was just bored to death." Osborne quickly mastered basic computer skills and went on to study...
"Well, first, he's named for the right state. Joe North Dakota, he'd probably be a bus driver. Then he's got those gunfighter's eyes. Deadly in publicity stills. Blam, blam, you're haddock pate." The observer wanted to ask this fine fish why this year everyone, even...
Psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg writes of the psychopath who can perfectly mimic a human personality without having one: "They obtain very little enjoyment from life other than from the tributes they receive from others or from their own grandiose fantasies, and they feel restless and bored when external glitter wears off...
So bored, he only scored 31 points in 27 minutes. Once word about Miner's abysmal performance starts getting around, Street & Smith's will probably take him off the cover of the West Coast edition of its college basketball preview. Dick Vitale will probably claim he was just kidding when...