Word: boredoms
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...retrospect it is clear that from then on the Nixon presidency was irredeemable. So long as the testimony of senior aides was in conflict, there was some chance that boredom and the impossibility of deciding conclusively among the different versions would cause the crisis to run out of steam. The revelation of the White House taping system ended any such possibility. Thenceforth Watergate was transformed into a bitter contest between the President on one side and the Congress and the special prosecutor (appointed in May) on the other for control of the tapes. Whatever the fine points of the legal...
Track co-captain Randull started vaulting to combat boredom when he was ten years old and living in Ghana. Randall and his older brother used bamboo sticks and buried themselves over neights of four and five feet. This sybling competition soon moved from rivalry to ritual and when his family moved to Newton, Mass., Randall joined the Newton North track team to begin supervised vaulting...
...bauble that combines the simplicity of pet rocks with engineering savvy, the Cube gratifies our desire for bric-a-brac. In a society where even most of the poor can watch television dreams, the struggle for survival which engages most of humanity can be less squarely faced. Accordingly, boredom, especially the middle class Roman kind which languidly consumers grapes, sets in. Its 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 colorful combinations provide relief. National thumb-twiddling now has direction. Like magpies lining their nest with shiny paperclips and fragments of colored glass, we rushed out to buy several million cubes...
...Fritz Tolm and his wife Käthe leaning out of a window of their Rhineland manor and getting wet in the rain? He only wants to tell her that she is "still the best remedy against boredom." It is a novel way to say "I love you," but the house is bugged and Tolm does not want the police to overhear him, even if it is for his own good. As Holzpuke, the officer in charge of household security, explained, all conversations are analyzed. Even the most innocent exchange may contain a clue about where and when terrorists will...
...Fran, played by Faye Dunaway, finally 1masters the courage to face the past and reestablish contact with Jo-Jo (Bernie McInerney) in time of trouble. Music and flashback link the five vignetts, some of which are emotional, others farcical in their evocation of the intervals of misery, joy and boredom in Fran's life...