Word: boredness
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Colette's preparatory sketches for her masterworks Chéri (1920) and The Last of Chéri (1926) show how hard she labored to achieve an effect of lapidary simplicity and ease. The fledgling gigolo Chéri made his first appearance as a runny-nosed boy called...
Why are so few substantial novels made into movies these days? Perhaps because the printed page is a dominatrix of the imagination, demanding that the reader conjure up worlds from words, that he become a hard-working co-conspirator in the creative experience. Celluloid, by comparison, is a laissez-faire...
Peking's authorities have long frowned on dog owning. But over the past decade, says a resident, "the bored children of high officials started the dog craze, and slowly it became trendy." Less slowly, perhaps, dogs began defiling the capital's streets and unsettling its residents. "Dogs run...
As the story opens, things do not look bright for May Alto. Harry, a second husband with the boyish charm and mental age of a 14-year-old, has just left her for "...this girl." Subsisting on codeine and Seconal, she is nursing an arm slashed in a mugging for...
On the rise, on top, or tobogganing toward his destiny, Tony is always the same: a ruthless, fearless, utterly amoral slug. Insert him in the chamber of a .45 and he will blast off into your enemies. Cross him and cross yourself; he will perform your last rites just for...