Word: boredoms
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...about fifteen. The sister, Pia, played by Magali Noel, is bored by farm life and wants excitement. Immediately upon Angelo's arrival she sets her sights on him and goes efficiently about the task of seducing him. Being an obliging sort, Angelo is quick to relieve Pia's boredom, and only five minutes after his arrival he is embracing her. She resists, playfully...
...Nella has a moment of wild hope that reality has at last broken through the interminable bad movie of life. But the film grinds on, the director calls for the cinema dramatics of the great confrontation scene, and Nella can find neither hatred nor pity in her heart -only boredom with this ridiculous villain. But Grandma, who does not realize she is merely a character actress, demands vengeance. Uncle Albert, as exhausted by heroics as Nella, seeks out Gaseler and knocks him down. "Cut!" cries the invisible director...
...Director Frank C. Selfridge of Evanston's James C. King Home: "They're not interested in the birds and the bees. They want to see the world go by." Doctors approve moving the old people downtown because it is a morale booster that staves off loneliness and boredom, makes the aged feel they still belong to society. Many of the homes allow the oldsters full freedom of action, without curfew. "We were really surprised when we noticed some of our people going out about 8:30 and staying out until 1," says one sister at Detroit...
...printing of 200,000 copies. Dedicated to Publisher Guy Schoeller, mid-fortyish, the man she has announced she will marry next winter, the book proved to be another bedtime story, no longer in the first person singular like the previous two, but still very personal. Its characters hop from boredom to boudoir and back again, and when asked what it all means, the young heroine says not to ask-and quotes Macbeth: "It will make...
...second loudest laugh in San Francisco-are forever racing cross-country to meet one another. Their frantic reunions are curiously reminiscent of lodge and business conventions, with the same shouts of fellowship, hard drinking, furtive attempts at sexual dalliance-and, after a few days, the same boredom...