Word: boredoms
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Caruba has always been obsessed with ennui. He links boredom to drug and alcohol abuse, high school dropout rates, violent crime, alarming suicide statistics and the general decline of the American family. He also thinks that boredom is, well, boring. There are better ways to spend a life...
...Caruba founded The Boring Institute, dedicated to the proposition that "There's No Excuse for Being Bored!" He designated July as "National Anti-Boredom Month." He began releasing his Fearless Forecasts of TV's Fall Flops. (Bad news for "Eerie, Indiana.") He began announcing his annual list of "The Most Boring Celebrities of the Year." (1990 champion: Donald Trump...
Former hostage Jacobsen, once director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, has predicted they will make it. "If you can last a month," Jacobsen said last year, "you can last forever. The only danger is illness." The remaining hostages have already survived illness and years of cruelty and boredom. Now it is up to their captors to decide how many of them will be allowed to savor freedom...
...revisiting accustomed pleasures. That is nowhere more true than in the mystery, whose audiences manifest, by their choice of genre, a taste for restoring established order. Victorians so yearned to watch Sherlock Holmes perform his tricks again and again that after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed him out of boredom, he gave in and resurrected the great detective. Dame Agatha Christie had the same murderous impulse toward Hercule Poirot, but slyly tucked the manuscript away until her demise. To this day, the first thing publishers ask is whether a mystery can become a series, a literary annuity...
...country seems to be suffering an outbreak of that endemic French affliction called malaise. The symptoms: widespread public unease; a volatile mixture of boredom, anxiety and irritation, carrying the potential for triggering sudden acts of collective furor. Change is beginning to look overwhelming to many of the French, eroding the old certainties that once defined Frenchness for everyone. Traditional institutions are in decline, including the church, marriage, labor unions and even the leisurely lunch. In foreign affairs, defense, economic policy, even eating habits and consumer tastes, the French are becoming more like their neighbors -- and they're not sure they...