Word: boredoms
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...course, the California dream was doomed from its inception; a society based on the illogic of instability is no society at all. Once every institution is toppled and all behavior patterns are violated, the euphoria of freedom turns to boredom. Today the vitality of Los Angeles is beyond dispute, but San Francisco's health is questionable. The city that spawned a counterculture now leads the nation in suicide and cirrhosis of the liver. Nor is California any longer a rollicking trend setter. While innovators in other states experiment with megastructures and mass transit, Californians dawdle with their latest amusement...
...MOVIE IS called Sorcerer, but there are no sorcerers in it (aside from the trucks that are the real stars of the movie), which is indicative of the scriptwriters' skill in making connections and telling a story. The movie makes little sense; with its atmosphere of grimy, relentless boredom, it provides even less pleasure. Billy Friedkin directed The French Connection, then he directed The Exorcist; with Sorcerer, he accelerates this downward trend...
...either Peckinpah is not whispering enough on this movie, which is being shot in Cuba-Cuba, N. Mex.-or he is whispering too much. Or perhaps it is a combination of boredom, dust and the New Mexico sun. At any rate, Peckinpah should have had the rest of the beer because, whatever the problem, the crew of his latest picture, Convoy, is threatening to reverse the usual procedure and quit before being fired. "Either Sam has gone mad or the rest of us have," says a wardrobe man. Adds a cameraman: "This is a training ground for idiots...
...transistors, tape decks and television sets, as if suddenly eager to latch onto a few small pleasures of life. There is champagne in the shebeens, and the chef in Soweto's one hotel now sleeps proudly on a water bed. True, no one can really escape the numbing boredom of being restricted at night to what is little better than a vast labor camp. But there is a new mood of assertiveness in this huge, dispiriting ghetto, and The Children-whose goal goes well beyond such rewards-have started...
Life on the train, according to the released hostages, was indeed a deadly combination of high stress and boredom. Because all the crossword puzzles had been completed, even the men inside the train began to take up embroidery to pass the time. One man plunged into a deep mental depression, and at one point another simply fainted, apparently from tension. The hijackers maintained strict hygiene inside the train. Every morning blankets were hung out of the windows and beaten to remove the dust. In the afternoon, hostages were assigned to remove excrement from under the train's toilet pipe...