Word: boredomization
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...largely freed from such constraints. Married straight out of high school to a doctor 15 years her senior, Delia now finds herself in a comfortable Baltimore home with three nearly grown children and no intelligible reasons for staying where she is. She reads paperback romances out of boredom and feels excluded from the fun. "She was," she tells herself, "a sad, tired, anxious, forty-year-old woman who hadn't had a champagne brunch in decades...
...first problem is that they are tan. Tan is the color of boredom. It is the color of dry dirt. It is the color of the junk you dig out of your eyes in the morning. There is nothing interesting of significant about the color tan. Note the vowelrhyme with 'Bland...
...Since the trial began in January, six jurors have been dismissed for reasons ranging from medical issues to misconduct, which leaves only 12 active jurors and six alternates. And with months of numbingly exhaustive testimony still to come, Ito is in danger of losing even more jurors to stress, boredom, personality conflicts or unforeseen dilemmas. Last week, juror No. 453, a flight attendant, asked Ito to let her go because she just "can't take it anymore...
Nauman doesn't think art has much to do with pleasure. Just about everything that could turn you off is catnip to him: aggro, solipsism, tension, repetition, torpor and bad jokes that may have come out of a misanthrope's fortune cookie. Boredom too. Try watching a fuzzy tape of Nauman overstretching a simple phallic pun by very slowly "manipulating" a long fluorescent tube. You don't so much enjoy this show as endure it; you get through it. Then, in the coffee shop, you peruse the catalog and find such hyperbolic drivel as this, by co-curator Kathy Halbreich...
...this secret commerce: three times a day a boy delivers slaughtered birds and boxes of white rice to the refugees, who may wait days or weeks for their boat to leave. For a few pesos extra, he will bring a bottle of Brugal, the local rum, to kill the boredom and dull any fears about the dangers that lie ahead. "The town depends on the trips," says an older resident. "When the weather is bad or the police ask for more money and the trips slow down, it becomes like a graveyard...