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Was he ever bored? Hmmm. He tells of staking out the main and only street of Cedar Point, a hamlet's least piglet of a town. The idea is to watch all visible action, dawn to dusk, from the back of his van. But nothing happens. He puts aside as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking Old Tom's Grand Grid | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

Beckel will do anything to attract viewers--especially young ones bored by the cynical, faux-academic caterwauling of a Sam Donaldson or a Pat Buchanan. He peppers the short news reviews in the show with pop music. One show dumped hard news to offer a segment on the new lost...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Serious Kitsch | 10/9/1991 | See Source »

NOW IS THE TIME we're supposed to be form lifelong friendships. We're supposed to hang out in big, chummy groups where everybody has a nickname. We're supposed to have a whole bunch of cool college stories with which to bore our children, the way our parents bored...

Author: By Gavin M. Abrams, | Title: The Real Rat Race | 9/28/1991 | See Source »

Follett has assembled quite a quirky cast of characters to inhabit his story. The Clipper list includes: Lord Oxenford, a British fascist fleeing arrest with his family; Carl Hartmann, a distinguished Jewish physicist escaping from the Nazis; Harry Marks, a bold and debonair jewel thief one step ahead of the...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Chills, Thrills and Plenty of Sex | 9/27/1991 | See Source »

"When I look across the table at the faces of the bored, exhausted detectives, all I can truly see is how disgusted they are at the insignificant little troubles of my younger life. I imagine them thinking 'So what?'"

Author: By Suzanne PETREN Moritz, | Title: The Murderer Remains a Mystery | 9/27/1991 | See Source »

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