Word: boredomization
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...another, they cheat. This belief reflects Ford’s his strong opinion that humans are inherently alone in the world and in their thoughts and that marriage is a futile attempt at looking through another’s eyes. His second-favored cause of infidelity is simply boredom with the normal American middle-class lifestyle. Infidelity for many of his characters becomes a means of distinguishing themselves from their less adventurous peers...
...Nursery,” which runs about 40 minutes, is about “middle-class teenage boredom,” Jarcho said. “I investigated the idea of violence as a release from that boredom,” she explains. “There are kids, a brother and a sister, who live in New York and are comfortable and incredibly bored. A school shooting happens—which you see on the news—and the play’s about the way the two of them respond to the idea...
...world is one of grownups. They congregate in those elegant friendly rooms like the inhabitants of an ideal but real fete champetre within four walls: New York's high bohemia, in mutual recognition. In it, children are rarely seen and subliterates are never heard. The fear, disgust and boredom that are the axial coordinates of American urban life in the 2000s do not appear. People are not afraid of growing older. Ripeness is all. They have not become depressed helots to the culture of ignorant mall rats with Dolby stereos. Nobody has heard of Madonna, let alone Donald Trump...
...Cure for Hospital Boredom...
When Michael O'Neil was hospitalized for 10 days in 1998, he and fellow patients suffered "isolation, boredom, confusion and anxiety." So O'Neil, 30, founded Get Well Network, based in Washington, to make hospital TV screens interactive. At the click of a remote, patients can surf the Web, access e-mail and instant messaging, and play music or video games. Or they can just watch TV: the network offers pay-per-view movies and more than 40 TV channels. "Since we implemented it, we've noticed improvement in patient satisfaction," says Les Donahue, CEO of Williamsburg Community Hospital...