Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The other major problem with this book should probably not be blamed on the author. The second half of Capa's career as a photojournalist is simply boring compared to the first half. As a result the book inevitably tends to wind down after World War II. Even the account...
Alcohol abuse is estimated to cost the Soviet economy $8 billion a year in lost production because of heavy drinking by workers. A recent newspaper poll revealed that 25% of those surveyed drank before work, and 20% admitted that they drank on the job. The late Soviet leader Yuri Andropov...
The Condors are far more interesting, perhaps because narrative quickens in the presence of evil and strife. John Milton faced such a problem when he portrayed Satan in Paradise Lost, and Le Guin, working on a different level, explicitly acknowledges the dilemma. One of the chorus of voices in the...
The real comedy is supposed to occur when Maxie and Jan struggle for use of the body. When Close is boring and dull, we know that Jan is in control; when she is loud and obnoxious and talks like an odd synthesis of Mae West and Betty Boop, we know...
"I don't know," he says. "People are down and out, I suppose. Life isn't peachy keen and wonderful. Punk is for people who do and don't think. It's for kids who find total American life boring. I suppose it's motivated by the same things that...