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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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2. BUFFALO vs. CHICAGO: Is Chicago really a quarterfinalist? No. Boring. Buffalo in four, with Danny Gare gunning.

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein and Jim Hershberg, S | Title: Drawn and Quartered | 4/16/1980 | See Source »

We get closeups of the washing of your dirty linen in the public square; you teach us how to "whip someone's ass"; million-dollar Hollywood stars fall over each other to entertain us; we get the intimate life story of all your candidates, etc. Just imagine how boring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 14, 1980 | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

THE VERY THINGS that make jazz documentaries attractive to jazz fans can make them intolerable to anyone else. "Authentic footage" usually means endless sequences of grainy, incompetently-shot film and crackling, poorly-recorded sound; the phrase "candid interview" may warn of mumbled, half-unintelligible reminiscences of the dead and the...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Kansas City Lovin' | 4/12/1980 | See Source »

Something tells Earl not to give money and car to a total stranger, but "to have an outright enemy as one's nearest neighbor, when one lived at the termination of a dead-end road, with only a wooded hollow beyond, a weed-field across the street, was unthinkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A House Is Not a Home | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

That Angi Vera lingers so in one's mind is a tribute to the winsome playing of Veronika Papp in the title role. She retains one's sympathy even when she is at her most enigmatic, even when, finally, she appalls. But the highest praise must go to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Innocent Radical | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

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