Word: boredome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the body is guided by certain natural patterns of movement that reflect the laws of physics Reversing impulses applies to the ability of the human mind to modify what seems natural. Throughout the dance, this theme results in several surprising changes that are designed to eliminate the boredom of predictable movements...
Joel enjoys the malleability of his music, just as he revels in the seemingly contradictory influences that molded him since he began improvising piano exercises to relieve the boredom of daily lessons when he was a kid. He counts for major inspiration the metric acrobatics of Dave Brubeck's Take Five and the seamless jazz fantasies of Oscar Peterson. He dreams of the day Ray Charles will pull one of the best songs out of the Joel portfolio, "and I'll hear New York State of Mind at the World Series." He prides himself on being a rocker, but wears...
...more competitive schedule, the result may be an even bigger letdown if the Super Bowl continues its recent form of understated, cautious football. Purists insist that fans cannot appreciate great defensive games like the 27-10 Cowboy victory; neither can they appreciate the fine line between mechanical proficiency and boredom, the main fare of recent Super Bowls. While this year's contest between Denver and Dallas had its moments of suspense, perhaps the most exciting event of the evening-and arguably the Super Bowl's premier athletic feat-was a 60-yd. bomb thrown by 13-year...
...Steiner elaborated, Kafka "was, in a literal sense, a prophet . . . He saw, to the point of exact detail, the horror gathering. The Trial exhibits the classic model of the terror state. It prefigures the furtive sadism, the hysteria which totalitarianism insinuates into private and sexual life, the faceless boredom of the killers. Since Kafka wrote, the night knock has come on innumerable doors...
...they are not let go, and Beckett has placed them in what for him is hell, the brimstone of boredom. The merciless light makes each repeat the lies of life throughout eternity. "Is it that I do not tell the truth?" asks the wife (Sloane Shelton). "Is that it, that some day somehow I may tell the truth at last and then no more light at last, for the truth?" The light does not answer, but Beckett does, and the play is repeated, word for word, a second time and the beginning of a third Man is doomed, Beckett seems...