Word: boredoms
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...tune. Quick-witted Luo saves the day by explaining that the name of the song is "Mozart Is Always Thinking of Chairman Mao." You can see the forlornness in the boys' eyes as they begin to sense the worst fear of every teenager: they are going to die of boredom...
...make an imperceptible impact on our budget, but would drastically affect the satisfaction of our students. We undertake regular surveys in addition to our daily contact with you in the dining halls and know that these special efforts we take to introduce variety, depart from the humdrum, reduce the boredom of repetition and make you feel as at home as possible matter greatly. Just as it would be fiscally irresponsible to assume an insurmountable debt level, it would be a miserly robbery of the residential community to deliver a meal plan with a “peanut butter and jelly?...
...Schmidt has what the rest of us have learned to call "issues." His wife, with whom he has settled into a life of hostile boredom, dies suddenly. She leaves him the house trailer in which they planned to embrace a footloose life and evidence that she once had an affair with his best friend. His ill-favored but blindly loved daughter Jeannie (Hope Davis) is about to marry a slippery water-bed salesman (Dermot Mulroney) and be absorbed into his awful family. They are ruled over by a mom (Kathy Bates) who is an overbearing monster of cordiality...
...visually arresting performance, which often felt like a sample orchestra of two. With Daniel micromanaging the elaborate groove architectures and Schmidt “playing” various objects including bells, whistles, a creaky box and a set of plastic balls that he ran through his mouth, the boredom that often accompanies live electronic shows was nowhere to be found. The pair, who are well known for using sounds as diverse as inflating balloons, liposuction surgery and amplified crayfish nerve tissue as musical elements, used the projector screen to lift their music out of the anonymous studio...
...collegiate life and unattracted by the pub scene, Horn found herself with lots of free time. Already an accomplished non-fiction writer—in addition to her position as a columnist for The Crimson, she has written for Time, Newsweek and Science—Horn discovered fiction through boredom...