Word: boredoms
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...down. "There's a pretty steep learning curve," admits Steen Strand, 35, the investment banker turned entrepreneur who invented Freebord. Will I ever catch big air on that curve? Probably not. But that's O.K. I may break my neck trying, but at least I won't die of boredom--or Chunky Monkey ice cream...
...school. He simply started taking pictures during the Depression, the era of socially conscious "concerned photography." But by the time he moved to New York in 1946, he was discovering a more personal style. If this was "concerned photography," it was concerned not with social conditions but psychic ones--boredom, isolation, acidity, glee, the feral thrusts of the libido and a weirdly sinister expectancy. His new work owed less to Evans and Dorothea Lange than it did to the tabloid-news photographer Weegee, the king of every New York...
...fact that she took home such a hefty sum of money. Redd says she actually hates game shows and never watches them. But the combination of her brother’s love for “Millionaire,” her own class-free Friday schedule and pure boredom led her to the Boston “Millionaire” auditions late last year. After a trivia quiz and quick interview, she was notified that she had been accepted onto the show, but producers informed her that they would not call her on for at least two years...
...another, they cheat. This belief reflects Ford’s his strong opinion that humans are inherently alone in the world and in their thoughts and that marriage is a futile attempt at looking through another’s eyes. His second-favored cause of infidelity is simply boredom with the normal American middle-class lifestyle. Infidelity for many of his characters becomes a means of distinguishing themselves from their less adventurous peers...
...Nursery,” which runs about 40 minutes, is about “middle-class teenage boredom,” Jarcho said. “I investigated the idea of violence as a release from that boredom,” she explains. “There are kids, a brother and a sister, who live in New York and are comfortable and incredibly bored. A school shooting happens—which you see on the news—and the play’s about the way the two of them respond to the idea...