Word: boredoms
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...knife to chop Spark's novel to pieces. Maybe Nixon should have gotten his hands on this film and erased is most tedious segments. Even if he only managed to cut out eight-and-a-half minutes, he would have saved a few souls from some of the unimpressed boredom that is this year's filmgoer's hell...
...Percy sees the moral problem of the age not as active evil but as moral boredom, as acquiescence, as the South absorbed and homogenized into America. "There I was," Lancelot says, "forty-five years old and I didn't know whether there was evil in the world...
...Indeed, if the first half of Evening sags occasionally because the songs are such greats, the second half has exactly the opposite problem. With the exception of "There's a Garden," these songs are deservedly obscure. Trouble in Tahiti tries to make suburban life operatic and raise the petty boredom of a failing middle class marriage to the level of tragedy. But any potential for opera sinks soon and swiftly: Why shouldn't this marriage fall apart, and who cares anyway? Bernstein offers us no special reason to care, the characters remain cardboard stereotypes and their situation all too familiar...
...lost my glasses (misplaced) and my driver's license (misdemeanor), excitement hasn't been too hard to find. Although sweat suits have replaced game uniforms for the time being at Harvard, life still goes on in the sports world, with its usual regularity and surprisingly consistent lapses into boredom...
Basketball, however, is a distant third in the sports boredom race behind the Superstars and NHL hockey. The former was once a good idea that Bob Seagren, Kyle Rote Jr., and Reggie Jackson all pitched in to ruin...