Word: boredoms
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Interests mean boredom. (As in the "interests" people list in "personal ads" -- "Schoenberg, late Heidegger and Hustler" -- or in the bodies known as "interest groups." Of course, you will already have found that "personal" in any case means "impersonal"; thus a "personal ad" is, in fact, a highly impersonal solicitation for companionship...
...digital superhighway may lead to boredom...
...waiting out the Davidians -- for how long, nobody knows. At Satellite City, the press encampment out near the compound, mailboxes have gone up, garbage is regularly collected, an Easter service was held, and there is an unelected mayor. The latest gag among a press corps going quietly mad with boredom is that Waco has become an acronym for We Ain't Coming...
...offered a much discussed thesis about what he called "the end of history," wherein, with communism gone, the world's civilization would settle upon a kind of sun-splashed plateau of democratic pluralism and free- market rationalism. One of the worst dangers in the post-Fukuyama world might be boredom, a fitful cultural unease...
...first half of the action is dominated by Lois Smith as the family's beleaguered matriarch, a woman whose rambling talk can disarm a felon through sheer boredom. The second half is dominated by Pippa Pearthree as the most successful of the clan's three adult daughters, a lesbian lawyer with a taste for vengeance and violence. There are also plenty of laughs for Alexandra Gersten as a daughter forever finding herself, William Youmans as a good- natured but doltish son-in-law prone to getting beaten up (he does an exquisite ballet of pain...