Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quan spends most evenings in his new two-story home "drinking beer and watching my Rambo tapes, because it's so damn boring here." Many of those who remember Quan and his family from before the revolution think he was crazy to return, despite his roots in Taishan. "Most of...
None of Bi's personal problems are on his mind this day. Instead he is incensed about work. "Meiyou," he says once, and then again. Meiyou (pronounced may-o) means "No, it cannot be done," or "No, we don't have it" -- a word foreigners learn quickly. "Too few primers...
I had team--the New York Jets. But I was never a diehard fan, especially after they moved to New Jersey. It wasn't just their ineptitude--the Mets and Knicks were not exactly paragons of eptitude, and I've always loved them. It was the way they lost that...
Though Ingersoll concedes there is some financial risk, he argues that "launching the Sun is likely to turn out on an investment basis to be the best deal we've ever made. For the same amount of money, I could buy something boring that I've done umpteen times over...
Wilkinson, who has also written books about police work on Cape Cod and moonshine enforcement in North Carolina, finds and displays much genuine cause for outrage here, but he also brings back a richer, more complex story than he seems willing to acknowledge. Better pay and treatment from the growers...