Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When health writers were asked to a private lunch with Jane Fonda last summer, one of the journalists panicked. "I have to be thin to meet Jane Fonda," thought the columnist, who then proceeded to binge compulsively on bagels. "Instead of eating one, I ate three." An understandable lapse for...
To buy Sid and Nancy, you have to believe either that Vicious and Spungen were pathfinders of a new sensibility, only too frail to find profit or pleasure in it, or that their symbiotic degradation is in some way instructive or entertaining. But no. The twin evil geniuses of the...
The slickly produced volume includes the script for the film; the only thing to be said for it is that reading an English translation of a Japanese adaptation of an Elizabethan drama is boring indeed. The script does help to identify the subject of each otherwise untitled picture.
Recent short stories in America are chronicling the American malaise of boredom. In much the same way that Latin American writers have made the novel a symbol of the fantastic convolutions and discombobulations of their history, American short story writers choose their form to mimic the small problems that beset...
Brown 21, Princeton 2: The Bruins play tough defense and could be one of the big surprises this season. Princeton, on the other hand, lost super-quarterback Doug Butler to graduation, so its offense is now boring, boring, boring.