Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The only blatant instance of Soviet propagandizing was described to me by an English girl I met in Gorky Park. She told me that the Intourist guide on a tour bus from the Sevastopol Hotel where she was staying injected so much party rhetoric about American "hegemony," the CIA and...
What bothered some viewers was the capriciousness of the networks' intrusions on the convention. Frequently, they interrupted speeches in mid-sentence for floor commentaries that were no less boring-or for commercials. "Everybody under stands the need for commercials," said Columnist William F. Buckley. "I mind much less yielding...
Ford chuckled. "Well, you know, my wife Betty always tells me I should run, but I think it's kind of boring--swimming's for me. So I think you ought to get someone else. I hear that this George Bush runs a lot. Try him."
So Samuel Johnson, who mixed gratitude with friendship, defended a benefactor, Henry Hervey, a reprobate despised by everyone else, including Hervey's father. "If you call a dog Hervey," said Johnson to Boswell, "I shall love him." Boswell himself, though no monster, could get on Johnson's nerves...
Presiding over this surprisingly cheerful army is the always boring Dick Howser, who recognized only last week he had been promoted from third base coach to manager. Dick may leave his pitchers in a bit too long and free ze up with a microphone in his face, but he has...