Word: boredoms
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...says: "The guards were the dumbest, most conservative s.o.b.s I've ever seen, but they were not half as bad as the other prisoners. It seemed like the two most despised groups were the C.O.s and the sexual perverts." For most of the resisters, the biggest enemies are boredom, lack of privacy, separation from friends and loved ones, and petty harassment by guards. They work as prison-library clerks, auto-shop mechanics, gardeners, dishwashers or launderers. Some of them find the repressive atmosphere of prison just one more reflection of an authoritarian society outside the walls...
What Davies finally suggests is the Beatles' isolation and boredom. Ringo is the most content, living a suburban, intensely domestic life in a house full of gadgets, including six TV sets. Paul roams restlessly through the youthful London underground, where artists and the remaining hippies overlap. George Harrison searched desperately for his own thing, seems to have found it briefly in Indian music and mysticism. Since Davies' book went into type John has left his wife and son for the Japanese artist Yoko Ono, and has put his suburban house up for sale. John trims away friends, will...
Tribute to TV. If at various times the show was a bore, it was not the fault of television but of the politicians. In fact, it is a kind of tribute to television that it does indeed convey how a convention is-a place of ritualized oratory, stupefying boredom, enormous apathy. If television's men did not get all the smoke-filled-room secrets, they got more than any single delegate did. In fact, an astute spectator would have been well advised to carry with him a portable TV set. It would have told him more about what...
These are people who have achieved everything except their hearts' desires. They are caught in the joyless round of choosing the top hotel to stay at, the finest restaurant to dine in, the most delectable partner to sleep with. Boredom infects their days and nights, and drink is their anodyne...
...that they might be killing the city by overcrowding? Do you try to judge buildings, wondering why some are good and others bad? Does one structure delight you and another depress you as just one more faceless façade, adding up to more monotony, more soul-destroying boredom? Architecture has always been the mirror image of a civilization, expressing its needs, its priorities, its aspirations. How do you like what you're getting? Do you react? Do you care...