Word: boredome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS NEW sensationalism proceeds out of an assumption of boredom, which is why it is new, and not designed to be a grand old show. It's not just Cecil B. parting the Red Sea anymore--there's television's stamina to beat now--blatant images in a box day after day, 24-hour love, hate, anger and pain in a thousand ways. So you give the audience a strange brain (a devil-possessor)--lobotomize 'em. Or you carry them to a strange environment (perhaps trash the one you've got and see how they run)--show 'em anything...
...drama in the paint, not in the narrative. In fact, the best triptychs are not narratives in any decipherable sense. "I don't want to avoid telling a story," Bacon remarked to Sylvester, "but I want very, very much ... to give the sen sation without the boredom of its conveyance. And the moment the story enters, the boredom comes upon...
...Stavisky is a movie for people who are sincerely worried about how to spend the time that remains between tomorrow morning and Armageddon; not for those, like the circle of young men and women who gather around Trotsky, who take life seriously and don't have to worry about boredom...
Invariably, the unemployed complain of the boredom and tensions of enforced idleness. They spend the first weeks off the job doing all the long-put-off chores-fixing up the house, puttering with the car. But after a while everything is fixed, and there is nothing to do. Says Dave Lee, 25, who lost his job with a window manufacturer in Bayport, Minn.: "I read magazines, I wash the car, I help my wife clean, I shovel snow. I just try to pass the time. It's 24 hours a day, and it's terrible...
...Boredom on the job. Blue-collar blues. By any name, the problems of low morale and numbing monotony surrounding production-line work have been of considerable concern in U.S. industry. One alternative often cited by various work reformers is the team-assembly concept pioneered by the Swedish automakers Saab and Volvo, according to which workers in small groups perform rotating tasks rather than installing the same widget on a fast-moving, impersonal line. American sociologists and union and management officials regularly return from tours of such plants favorably impressed. But recently a group of six Detroit engine-plant employees tried...