Word: boredoms
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Horowitz was happy there. He enjoyed the long hours of mindless work, and still does today. "Science is far more tedious than people realize," he says. "But I have a high boredom threshold, and a low thrill threshold. Looking through a telescope might sound exciting, but you're not watching galaxies explode. There are very exciting times, but those times are few and far between. You have to be happy in between...
Exactly what single cause or combination of causes-health, boredom, disappointment, anxiety-led Mills to disregard recklessly his reputation and career remains a mystery. Fanne herself, while perhaps garrulous to a fault (see box), has not provided much illumitiation. Largely guileless, enormously flattered by Mills' attentions, she is scarcely the stereotype of a designing woman. Indeed, she may not really comprehend the role she has played in the destruction of the man whom she still calls "Mr. Mills." What is certain is that what began as delicious Washington gossip has become a personal and professional tragedy in which...
asked Men's Wear. Decrying Nelson Rockefeller's wardrobe as a "sartorial mess" suffering from a case of "terminal boredom," the editors sought suggestions on Rocky's behalf from four fashion designers. Bill Blass complained that "it's difficult to dress politicians because there's an aspect of insincerity about them." But Blass, along with two of the other designers, prescribed pin stripes for Rocky. "He would have new confidence in himself if he were to care how he looked and maybe people would start noticing him instead of his money," said Piero Dimitri helpfully...
...blacks, 20 whites and four Indians is scarce. Every day a single newspaper is delivered to each of the three tiers. It makes its way section by section down the row of cells. Books and magazines are even scarcer. The inmates pass their days in numbing boredom...
...Frenchmen will be reading what the author calls a "novel of noncommunication" and what one reviewer more fully described as the account of an unhappy love affair between a broken-down aristocratic student and a working-class beautician who goes mad when he drops her out of boredom...