Word: boredome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equally bitter ballad, "Bring Back the Chair," Paxton evinces his skill with irony. He mockingly suggests that America should revive executions to escape from complete boredom, chanting, "Bring back the chair, strap someone there, strap down a pair." Swept away by the morbid message, Paxton lapses into moments of poor enunciation and phrasing, but the song is funny enough to short out delivery problems. Again, the music provides a steady circuit for the electricity of Paxton's work...
...reader's knowledge of the surrealistic enchantment that awaits Kepesh lends a poignancy to his struggles. Try as he may to be good, flesh will subsume him at last. At the end of his narrative, Kepesh nuzzles the good woman whom he loves to the point of boredom and worries about "my fear of transformations yet to come...
...Perhaps this was intentional--the Gamesman Maccoby portrays is certainly an interesting figure, and interesting figures sell books--but more likely it was simply the product of an understandable enthusiasm to make a careful scholarly presentation as entertaining as possible. Given the subject matter's potential for sheer stultifying boredom, the reader should probably be grateful...
...currently packing them in at movie theaters all over America, makes a decent stab at exposing the high-pressure, win-at-all-costs nature of intercollegiate sports, a topic deserving of much scrutiny. On that level, One on One is fine; unfortunately, it descends to the level of mawkish boredom in detailing the march to maturity of its main character, a hotshot basketball player portrayed by Robbie Benson...
...years Cole Porter was a man on the run, racing to outdistance that most dreaded of all pursuers-ennui. "I have spent my life escaping boredom," he said, "not because I am bored, but because I do not want to be." He won the contest. But then, he had a head start...