Word: boredomization
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Depending on the source, Chanel's return to the fashion world has been variously attributed to falling perfume sales, disgust at what she was seeing in the fashion of the day or simple boredom. All these explanations seem plausible, and so does Karl Lagerfeld's theory of why, this time around, the Chanel suit met such phenomenal success. Lagerfeld--who designs Chanel today and who has turned the company into an even bigger, more tuned-in business than it was before--points out, "By the '50s she had the benefit of distance, and so could truly distill the Chanel look...
...Brando culture was vital and restlessly innovative, but it carried the seeds of its own boredom. Revolutionary pop was too speedily accepted, turned into mainstream mulch and, in a trice, its own parody. Artists with any hope of staying power were forced to reinvent themselves a la Madonna. And her triumph was not any singing style, or even a winking decadence, but simply the prolonging of her career...
...introduction to Gaddafi's first published work of fiction, just arrived in translation in the U.S. Cheerily titled Escape to Hell and Other Stories, Gaddafi's book mostly covers things that chafe him, including football, rock music and especially cities: "Flee from the lethargy and waste, the poison and boredom and yawning. Flee from the nightmare city," he writes. People, also, are a problem: "Your breath chases me like a rabid dog, its saliva dripping in the street of your modern city of insanity." Movie rights, apparently, are still available...
...these excuses are telling in that they are simplistic versions of the excuses that have showed up in the trials of (real) adult murderers. How many cases have come before the courts of men slaying their wives and girlfriends? Or men claiming that boredom, or Twinkies, or something else ridiculous drove them to commit a crime? These children are only following the pattern America has set out for them over the last generation...
...that helps jar British theater out of what he dubs its "cycle of boredom," so be it. "I want to write plays that shake you up a little bit," he says, "plays that a film fan would be interested in seeing, like the new De Niro movie." He's already got a lot of them waiting eagerly for the new McDonagh play...