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Popovich was picked for the Soviet space program in 1960. His jovial spirits often relieved the tedium of many of the training missions at the Russian space center. During one long isolation test in a cramped training capsule, he combatted boredom by dancing and singing operatic arias with such gusto that scientists and doctors often gathered to listen. A voracious reader, Popovich is an admirer of Hemingway and Stendhal, can quote passages from the works of Soviet Poets Sergei Yesenin and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Ironically, both Yesenin and Mayakovsky committed suicide after becoming disenchanted with Communism...
Drummer James Bradley Jr. looks like the very spirit of the sideman-brow intent, eyes unsmiling, face masked in hazy boredom. When Los Angeles television station KTLA signed him to a 26-week contract last month, no one was surprised: Bradley is an exceptional drummer. He can play three-beat rhythms with one hand while he plays four-beat with the other. He can switch hands instantly to travel from the bone-dry clatter of the wood block to the rich depth of the snare...
Cambridge devotees of Ingmar Bergman will have to wait for The Virgin Spring if it's the artistic manipulation of a new and different situation they're after. For Dreams sheds little light on the already thoroughly essayed subject of mis-matched lovers. Marred by disturbing patches of unmitigated boredom, this Bergman import lacks the sparkle of either Smiles of a Summer Night or A Lesson in Love...
...from Port Stanley was typical: the destination was Cleveland, 300 miles away, where the band had a concert the following afternoon. As soon as the bus pulled out. the bandsmen settled down to the jazz world's two favorite antidotes to boredom-poker (rear of the bus) and drinking (front). Kenton rode in the well at the front door. A few lucky musicians were able to sleep, notably Saxophonist Joel Kaye, who at 140 lbs. is small enough to slip into the overhead luggage rack. A couple of other bandsmen listened over individual earphones to the tape recorder that...
...Visconti) probes the boredom and despair of the very rich. A handsome young Milanese count (Thomas Milian) has created a front-page scandal by associating with $1,000-a-night call girls. He fears that the father of his German-born wife Pupe (Romy Schneider) will cut him off without funds. As husband and wife debate their dilemma and their relationship, the camera feels its way like a sybarite over the textures of the setting and the people. The props are excruciatingly chic, ranging from Aubusson tapestries and Canaletto paintings to Actress Schneider's Coco Chanel clothes...