Word: boredoms
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...entertainment experience, at least an interesting hybrid. Like a TV show, a movie cassette must compete with household distractions: dinner, phone calls, children running through the den. Like a book, it can be picked up and put down at will, the good parts repeated--or given up entirely if boredom sets in. George Baxt, a New York City mystery writer who rents up to five movies a day, is typical of the new breed of freewheeling video experimenters. "If it's lousy," he says, "I just do a fast forward and say goodbye...
...down from their sequestered cloisters to right this wrong is a noble one, it is not as accurate as it may appear. No doubt college presidents have known for years the types of abuses that have been so rampant. Yet they have maintained their distance, either out of neglect, boredom or the desire to enjoy the financial fruits of big time athletics...
...realist who nevertheless stakes the outcome of his art on an opposition between intelligence (ordering, remembering, exemplifying) and sensation. His paintings do not strive to tell stories, but to clamp themselves on the viewers' nervous system and offer, as he puts it, "the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance." He once remarked: "An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a nonillustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact." The nub of the difference between Bacon's figures and those of expressionism is that...
...part the difficulties stem from the complexity of working couples' lives. There are only so much energy, emotion and especially time to go around. When the career-minded pair finally meet at home, they are usually exhausted. Often their conversation is confined to work. Intimacy erodes; boredom sets in. Says Sara Yogev, a Skokie, Ill., psychotherapist: "It's funny, but even sex can become another task that they need to do, satisfying physically but not emotionally...
...Royal-watcher knows that there's more to these ceremonies than meets the eye. Ascot a horse racing festival created by Edward VII, gives most of the family a hefty dose of boredom. They all have to indulge the Queen's love for the ponies. Prince Philip, forcing a smile for the crowds, conceals a radio in his top had to listen to a cricket match, before disappearing backstage to catch up on work. Princess Diana complains about having to go. The Queen Mother slyly slips two pounds to a footman to wager on a horse. If the steed wins...