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...boredom stemmed largely from the confusion which dominates this Convention, a confusion of conflicting political forces in a party divided over credential and platform issues. Only a few persons with access to the candidates seemed confident that they had any inkling of what really was going on here prior to last night's opening session. The rest wandered aimlessly about looking for something...
JAMES O'HARA. A little-known liberal Congressman from Michigan, O'Hara, 46, chairs the Rules Committee. His task: to steer toward delegate approval far-reaching changes intended not only to make future conventions fairer, but to divest them of both the boredom and the hoopla -long-winded speeches, planned demonstrations, conscripted marchers...
...until it loses its edge. In one se quence Rosemonde is shown at work, standing beside a machine that stuffs sausages inside skins with regular bursts of phallic efficiency. The image is funny and outrageous at first, but Tanner holds it longer to convey Rose monde's glazed boredom, then longer still, as if congratulating himself on his own cleverness...
...Girls are afraid the guys won't leave them alone if they wear the Bare Look to the office," says one boutique manager. That fear may be exaggerated; the plethora of skin might result in more boredom than enticement. Already Designer Stan Herman, who spends much of his day around women dressed in seminude styles, says, "I find girls in tight little sweaters much sexier...
...RESTIC arrived in Cambridge last fall, fresh from the wide-open Canadian pros with a fat playbook full of tricks under his arm, many Harvard fans, thoroughly bored by a decade of John Yovicsin's dive, sweep, incompletion offense, breathed a sigh of relief. But their relief soon became boredom again in the opening game, as Restic's man-in-motion, multiple set offense produced a paltry ten points against a Holy Cross team that had not won a game in almost three years (a performance that looked even more pathetic three weeks later when Syracuse stepped on that same...