Word: boredness
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For the girl and her friend, the shoes are an event. They fall about each other, laugh and shiver, hold one another. When they've finished they bum Djakarta cigarettes from a nearby skinhead. The girl turns back to me, looking bored. Her eyes, brown and indolent, hover above and...
So when he became a professor government at Harvard, he decided to teach "a justice course that would leave me less bored than I was when I first read these books," Sandel says.
They were prototypes for Evelyn Waugh's "Bright Young People," the six sisters and a brother who provided a perfect historical metaphor for the fashionable confusions of their class and time. With apt symbolism, the Mitford girls paraded at smart London parties dressed as decadent Roman empresses. When the horses...
Mel Wiley was not a run-of-the-beat lawman. He aspired to be a poet (writing lines like "my love is a silver shadow") and had long worked on a mystery novel called Harvest Madness. Bigam knew that the chief had been moody lately, and a bit bored with...
Needless to say, after a few days, the kids (played by Jason Lively and Dana Hill) are bored, and all of England is terrified of Clark Griswald. So it's off to France. But not before visiting Stonechenge--and, believe it or not, knocking the whole thing down accidentally by...