Word: boredoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brownstone windows, storing the enigmatic snapshots of home and business for later use. These are reconstructed scenes, emotion recollected in tranquility. In Room in New York, 1932, it is night; a man reads a paper at a round table, a woman turns away in her own absorption and boredom, touching the piano keyboard with one finger. They are out of synch, and their distance from each other is figured in the simple act of a woman with a shadowed face sounding a note (or perhaps only thinking about sounding it) to which there will be no response...
...thought I had it made. I Knew the territory from four years of hanging out in Harvard Square to escape the boredom of suburban high school life, and I felt my acceptance letter alone was proof that I was fit to tackle the challenges of Harvard with my peers. I never thought I couldn't handle it. I had fears, lots of them, but they were blanketed by waves of excitement and the overriding thought that this was the moment I had been waiting for. After 12 years of trudging through school and bearing the stigma of being someone...
Faulkner endured but did not prevail after Stockholm. Booze and boredom can be cited for his declining powers. Garcia, on the other hand, has gone on to get the most out of his literary property. His epic One Hundred Years of Solitude took more than 20 years to fully develop. Since then, he has spent his energies Macondoizing-turning his broad conception into small, enchanting units. Nearly all the characters of his shorter subsequent books could have been folded into the pages of Solitude...
...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...