Word: boredness
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Oddly, he wasn't a great standup comedian. He was funny in several Broadway roles, but doing the same thing every night bored him. He was unbeatable at drinking and telling stories all night in bars, but they don't pay you for that. Where Jackie Gleason really was the...
These British programs may eventually show up on U.S. TV screens. But foreign-language fare, no matter how good and accessible, has an almost insurmountable problem: subtitles are a virtual taboo on American TV. It is a terrible shame. At a time when programmers are searching for unusual fare to...
Far-less-sexy Lamont, one of three undergraduate libraries, is a popular place for studying and socializing. Anyone who enters the large ground floor reading hall is scrutinized by a roomful of bored students hoping for escape.
"We've been studying class reunion questionnaires of prior years, and frankly we're bored by compilations of responses emphasizing statistics and percentages," Munson writes in the booklet.
There is always a superficial attraction to the notion of an outsider coming in to clean up a corrupt, wasteful political system. "Let's send Ross Perot up there," cries Bubba. "He knows how to kick ass." Successful "bidnessmen" have been running for office in Texas for years on that...