Word: boredoms
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...quite so high and there are slightly fewer homeowners. Protestants barely outnumber Catholics, though together they are a massive majority; only 6% are Jewish, double the proportion for Affluent Bedroom suburbs but hardly a significant minority. Here Nixon won-but only by 47% to 40%. The boredom quotient is higher; nearly half think that their community offers an inadequate range of things to do with leisure time. LOW-INCOME GROWING. These are towns like Sylvania, Ohio, and Billerica, Mass., with sizable populations of skilled workers, most of whom earn their living close to home. This tends to be upward-mobile...
...would want to meet that sort of woman? For 80 years, playgoers have indicated that they are extremely interested in meeting Hedda. They want to know about everything that Miss Bloom fails to tell them: the source and force of her unspent passion, of her neurotic boredom, of her worship of her father, of her loathing for her husband and of many other intriguing things. The playwright has given the actress gold, but it lies under dark ground where she must assiduously dig. The degree of angst that Claire Bloom conveys could easily be relieved with a couple of aspirin...
...THOUGH we didn't see the emptiness and boredom beneath their smiles before, Cassavetes begins to make everything explicit. Celebration of the sensual turns into contempt. When we should feel pity, we feel disgust. At one point in an English gaming room, Archie finds himself with a repulsively ugly English society woman who won't let him walk away. The scene is utterly gratuitous, and Cassavetes is using the perversely banal to make cheap jokes. To present the underside of bourgeois respectability, he deliberately cultivates the unattractive...
...permanent or transitory is the change remains mysterious. It could be merely temporary calm induced by fatigue or a bit of boredom or even by winter weather. But the change seems more complex than that and therefore more profound. To the extent that an American psychology exists, it has, in nearly all its troubled compartments, undergone numerous and sometimes subtle transformations, as is shown by reports from TIME correspondents on the following pages...
...great danger of any imitative art, though, is boredom. Either medium or message must be spruced up, quickened, or else the imitation becomes excruciating. The problem can be handled in several ways. Sometimes it's the experience itself that is in some important way interesting, and the artfulness with which it is recorded becomes secondary (Lady Bird Johnson's White House Diary ); sometimes that relation is inverted, and clever treatment makes dull material zippy ( Cleo from 5 to 7. Warhol's novel-transcription a); sometimes neither event nor method is engaging, and the dismal result is a CBS Miss America...