Word: boredoms
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...rate, prisoners were allowed for the first time to exercise outdoors for 30 minutes, but behind bamboo screens so that they could not see each other; they got a third daily meal of bread and water, and a third blanket. They began to pass their days in boredom rather than fear. Milligan began to raise a family of spiders in his cell, and watched geckos "mate with each other and grow...
...marked with a sign that says, "Through these gates pass the world's best soldiers." Outside, crowded brown Army buses took the G.I.s on a four-minute ride to the waiting planes. One of these buses passed a disorganized column of 17-year-old Vietnamese recruits, marching from boredom to exhaustion. "You're on your own now, fellas!" one soldier yelled...
...board a train bound from Marrakech to Casablanca, a jaded American fashion model (Lindsay Wagner) meets up with a moody compatriot (Peter Fonda). She thinks he may be carrying a little grass to ease the boredom of the journey; he wants to be left alone to reflect on tribulations yet to come. "Where were you?" asks the model's travel companion (Estelle Parsons) when she returns to their compartment after being rebuffed by Fonda. "Out of my depth," the model replies...
Psalms of Two Davids sits like a merciful cloud on a pallid theatrical landscape. It is most engaging because it is filled with fits of life and envy in a time of profound dramatic boredom. Zwick has had the wit to let his cast try something new in every moment of the play...
Friday night in Baltimore isn't much to celebrate over, especially if you've had a drawn-out and disappointing day fencing in the NCAA Championships. So last night, the Harvard fencers taking part in the national competition decided to watch a little television to while away the boredom...