Word: boredoms
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During Garroway's nine-year tenure, Today was relaxed and inviting. But some time during the '60s it began to take itself seriously, and boredom settled over Weaver's sunny video resort like a thick...
...There is humor in Chekhov, but it lights the interstices of his work, not the core. At the center is pain-of unrequited love, of oppressive boredom, of raw edgy nerves, of desolating aloneness...
...witch doctor loose in Reagan's mind, Carter locked up and lonely in the Oval Office time and time again, the first wave of analysis, followed by the second wave of analysis, followed by analysis of the analysis. Then there were all those families groggy from beer and boredom, telling TV crews their dubious leanings. Debate coaches weighed in and drama critics pounded their typewriters. Victory parties begun before the show started roared on into the night for both Carter and Reagan, who both naturally smiled in triumph when it was all over...
...shows us the majestic sights, the paralyzing winter, and the ever-present threat of loneliness and boredom that can drive a quiet little clergyman to publish a newsletter containing the sentence, "And what this INSANE crypto-Jewish riff-raff has planned for Homer and its citizens is no less than what the same antichrist Jewish riff-raff did to Russia. "He gives us details like a bar sign reading, "TAKE OFF YOU GODDAMNED BOOTS...
...more accurately its offshoot technology, was being blamed for much that was wrong with the world: the growing despoliation of the environment, the chemical devastation of the Vietnamese countryside, the spread of nuclear weaponry. Even the first flush of excitement about landing men on the moon quickly turned into boredom after repeated video exposure of the dusty, lifeless lunar surface. Many people pressed loudly and insistently for more attention to earthly problems. NASA is still suffering budgetary blues from this outcry. Indeed, only last week the space agency's beleaguered boss, Robert Frosch, announced he was quitting, reportedly because...