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Bailey graduated first in his class, despite spending much of his time watching actual trials and running a successful investigative firm servicing local lawyers. During classes he often read in apparent boredom; when his professors tried to tag him with sudden questions, he would smugly answer in minute detail, then go back to his reading. His worst grade, ironically, was on a criminal law exam?but only because he is plagued with a bad case of lefthanders' handwriting and could not finish all his answers. After that debacle, he was permitted to bring a typewriter to all his exams; even...
Part of Amis's problem is his choice of subject. His characters are pitiful in their self-indulgence. He seems to find it hard to convey the emptiness and boredom of their lives without those qualities permeating his writing. In addition, the pointlessness of their lives makes it difficult to envision a conclusion that would not seem like authorial arbitrariness. Amis's solution--wholesale destruction of his characters after 200 pages--is really no solution...
Dead Babies attempts to make judgments about destructive tendencies in modern lives. But the characters are so shallow, their acts and their final destruction so gratuitous, that their boredom and apathy finally become ours as well...
Blanchard fretted that Fair's tough-guy approach might reverse the gradual improvement of morale from its post-Viet Nam nadir of racial conflict, drug abuse, alcoholism and boredom. A former commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, Blanchard, 55, is no cream puff either. But by contrast with Fair, he adopted a more relaxed attitude toward his forces, encouraging his troops to take time off, learn German and meet local people. He approached enlisted men as citizens in uniform...
...Perfect. Sometimes SN is awful. Comedian Albert Brooks' taped films were at first a regular feature, but offered only ten minutes of boredom. The Muppets are cloying grotesques. The funniest jokes are the simplest: a land shark who gobbles up apartment dwellers; a parody of Catherine Deneuve's Chanel No. 5 ad which ended with a perfume bottle stuck to Guest Host Candice Bergen's head. A lot depends on the guest hosts who change each week and around whom an entire show is written. Among the first tapped by Michaels were Comedian George Carlin and Actor...