Word: boredoms
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Report is a 45-minute manual on the grunt's first challenge: combatting boredom while he learns his job. War isn't hell, it's just a drag. In depicting men at work, at meals, at the meager forms of play available to them, the film seems relentlessly mundane. And so it is -if the viewer forgets that many of these youngsters, smiling or shivering or just hanging around, are marking time before an early, explosive death...
Greene, of course, will not hear of any hint of bravery or courage on his part. His flirtations with sudden death were nothing more than "ways of escape" from boredom and what he calls his manic-depressive self. He merely sought "that feeling of exhilaration which a measure of danger brings to the visitor with a return ticket." He even uses his extensive experience of the world as a way to undercut the imaginative scope of his novels: "Some critics have referred to a strange violent 'seedy' region of the mind (why did I ever popularize that last...
...suffering from multiple sclerosis. Queen reported that for a while after the embassy seizure the hostages were often bullied, and even threatened with execution, by their militant captors, but that early this year the militants eased off and the hostages' main problem was coping with the boredom of sitting in small rooms for endless hours with nothing to do. It is no longer known where they are being held. They were said to have been dispersed from the embassy to 15 cities throughout Iran last spring, and are now, so the Iranians boast, in Tehran hotels. The militants...
Simon's study of Mel's boredom bogs down by the second act, and Mel and Edna's quarreling begins to grate. Likewise, Simon is out of his league when he attempts to portray a nervous breakdown; as a result Achtman is forced to rely on a farcical style when Mel snaps. But if, in the end, he and McPhee don't possess the passion to enflame the big emotional speeches in some scenes, they make us care about Mel's and Edna's ups and downs, triumphs and hardships. And that's no small feat...
...this robot, which goes into regular operation in a few months, is transporting reprocessed plutonium, one of the most toxic substances known to man. Until now, this dangerous task has been done by men in elaborate space suits. The robot, which knows neither weariness nor boredom, also knows nothing of danger...