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...rating, a month after another, more prominent X-er, "Myra Breckinridge," had ignominiously tanked. "BVD" earned a healthy return on investment and a sheaf of favorable notices - though not every critic loved the film. The Chicago Tribune's reviewer sniped at the movie and its tyro scripter: "Boredom aplenty is provided by a screenplay which, for some reason, has been turned over to a screenwriting neophyte." (This was young Gene Siskel, twitting his rival, later partner-rival, Ebert. Here's thumb in your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanks for the Mammaries | 8/2/2002 | See Source »

...gritty Gold Rush, Akutagawa prizewinner Miri Yu uncovers the psychic machinery linking wealth and violence, ennui and petty crime, boredom and murder in a tale of a teen who commits patricide, hiding the corpse in a basement vault filled with gold. In Yu's Japan, the kids are definitely not all right?but society is far too screwed up to notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dead-End Kids | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

Strengths: Can generate time-space boredom field capable of making two hours seem like 200 years

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tin Men | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...Bahamas tended to work the way we expected, it came as no surprise that the electricity went out all over the island soon after we arrived. Packed into a humid hotel suite, all of us, bored of our rum drinks, began to play a group game to dispel the boredom of the dark...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Once a Dork, Always a Dork | 6/4/2002 | See Source »

...Alliance leader tells the journalists at the front, "If you stay after dark some of my troops will rob you. And maybe worse," it becomes a "commuter war," complete with parking attendants. Even under constant threat of bombs, robbery and murder, the international press felt most oppressed by the boredom of a front without any "action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New War Comix | 5/28/2002 | See Source »

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