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Word: boredoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simply as pop. Surging underneath the glittery surface of these tunes is a seriously reflective look at friendship, regret and love. "I Got Friends" examines the pain associated with losing contact with old friends, but in the end hope for the rejuvenation of those relationships. "Only One" looks at boredom and anxiety associated with the fear of taking risks. Buttercup dig reflectively into their subjects and don't fall into the rut of writing empty love songs...

Author: By John T. Reuland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Buttercup Shows Innovation, Reflection With `Love' | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...Justin Sledge, provided some clues with a note from murder suspect Luke Woodham: "I am not insane. I am angry. I killed because people like me are mistreated every day. I did this to show society push us and we will push back." Another explanation might lie in the boredom of teen small-town life, says TIME Atlanta bureau chief Sylvester Monroe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conspiracy Theory in Mississippi | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

Soon, however, Larry's boredom ignites with his alcoholism into a raging resentment of his daughters' activities. In turn, Ginny's irritation explodes into indignance and impatience, while Rose reopens an arsenal of past offences to explain her hatred of her father. Both sides seek allies to their cause, but a contagious mistrust infects even the strongest and sturdiest relationships...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Acres: Breaky Hearts | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

Burroughs, who was born Feb. 5, 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri, graduated the College with a degree in English. After graduation he began a period of what he would later call "aimless drifting and boredom." After being dismissed from the Army for physical reasons after only three months, he spent the early 1940s in Chicago and New York working as a private detective, bartender, exterminator and newspaper reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Writer, Beat Icon Burroughs Dead at 83 | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

...seems to have begun with boredom on a desperately muggy afternoon a few days after school let out for the summer. Nicole wanted to get out of the house and did so by lying to her father, telling him she had a baby-sitting job. Instead, she met up with her boyfriend Michael Carter and their close friends Dustin Kaiser and Mike Tester. For Nicole and Carter, it was a reunion of sorts. For two weeks, Carter had been holed up in a juvenile-detention center for taking the truck of his mother's live-in boyfriend, among other things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TRAIN HOP TO TRAGEDY | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

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