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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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American broadcasters tend to consider British TV news programs professionally put together but low budget, low key and kind of boring. Instead of anchormen, there are news readers who do not thrust their personalities at the viewer. Only a few interviewers with outsize gall, like Sir Robin Day of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newswatch: The Curse of Sound Bites | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

For an American visitor, the strange and exhilarating result of the British coverage was to see the candidates plain, without distractions. When they held press conferences, the camera was on the candidate; the questioning reporters were only heard, not seen. Every night during the mercifully brief three-week campaign (ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newswatch: The Curse of Sound Bites | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

The fast-track careers of Novelists Jay McInerney, 31, and Bret Easton Ellis, 23, have intriguing parallels. McInerney's 1984 best-selling fictional debut, Bright Lights, Big City, chronicled the downward spiral of an unnamed young writer who delves into New York City's nightclub netherworld with the help of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 15, 1987 | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

The camera work is so bad that the movie doesn't even work as a travel advertisement for the Riviera (a true disaster in a beach movie). Par for the course in TV dramas and box-office disasters, even the badly shot landscapes look too sublime for the characters. Perhaps...

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: L'Annee de Meduses | 5/22/1987 | See Source »

GET REAL. Nothing is worse than some smart-ass who thinks a half-finished liberal arts education is of any value or use whatsoever. Summer jobs only come in two flavors: menial and boring. Behind door I is construction, road work, and painting. Behind door 2 is shuffling papers, adding...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Summertime Blues | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

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