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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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You expect nothing new in a Schwarzenegger movie, and he usually delivers. Take Red Heat's final runaway-bus chase . . . well, action-movie finales are always boring; that's the time to get the popcorn. But there are pleasing character lines on the film's familiar muscular framework. The script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Arnold Wry RED HEAT | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

Please don't get the wrong idea. The author of this essay is no one's idea of a wild Dionysiac. That, in a way, is the point. The desire to get high occasionally is not restricted to a small self-destructive minority. It's shared by the most boring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Glass Houses and Getting Stoned | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Putting out the garbage is one of life's duller necessities. Last week that boring chore became a bit riskier. By a 6-to-2 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police may freely rummage through ordinary household trash left at curbside without obtaining a search warrant. The decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Lifting The Lid on Garbage | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

Venerable tradition, sticky with the memory of cotton candy, has it that the circus never changes. That may be why a brash Canadian named Guy Laliberte says he hates the circus and why a colleague, Denis Lacombe, thinks clowns are boring. What makes their opinions worthwhile is that Laliberte is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pree-Senn-Ting The Circus of the Sun | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

But they both gave up tennis because "it was boring" and became serious about squash.

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Life as the Corsican Brothers | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

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