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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The jackals haven't the barnacled, bad-liver look of some who covered the 1960 campaign. They don't, like Teddy White, smoke unfiltered cigarettes, or filtered either. They play poker sometimes, or blackjack, and one throwback even asks for a Jack Daniels. A group clusters around the seats behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Myth and Memory | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

The author finds the East bloc boring ("Imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office") and the night life especially disappointing. One club features a stripper doing the "Dance of a Couple of Veils." In the even less developed parts of the world, O'Rourke predicts a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wise Guy | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

The structure is more formal at Bush headquarters, where Baker's authority $ is explicit as well as implicit. At 7:30 each morning, seated around the conference table in Baker's office are roughly the same seven or eight key people, including Atwater, TV guru Roger Ailes, pollster Robert Teeter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's The Year Of the Handlers | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

"Earn less money. Get responsibility without power. Do boring work. Be blamed for everything."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Help Wanted: Start at the Top | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

MOST OFT-REPEATED, OBVIOUS AND ULTIMATELY BORING PHRASE. This is a party town.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans: The Envelope, Please . . | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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