Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Message songs," says Hancock, "get a little boring. You begin to sound like missionaries. With Sun City, though, you get caught in the rhythms." The rhythms are new, but in fact this vocal conscience comes out of a long tradition. There were activist antecedents in the alternative culture of the...
Many Americans appear to be suffering from the "too" syndrome when it comes to athletic activity. They claim they are too busy, too old, too sick, too tired. Or that exercise is too boring. Steve Friedman, executive producer . of NBC's Today show, is unrepentantly indolent. "I'm one of...
In fact, it is Sarah's desertion which provides the cure to Macon's existential homesickness. By the time she comes back desiring her old security and admitting that "some things are worse than boring," it is too late. Having been thrust into unfamiliar territory, Macon has been forced to...
But he doesn't just live in New Jersey. He is New Jersey. He's exhaust-choked freeways lit up by garish neon signs (see "Born to Run"). He's wild nights at the Jersey shore (see "Greetings from Asbury Park"). He's boring towns where there's nothing to...
Prowling about his new beat with all the subtlety of a bulldozer, white is the quintessential Yuppie-come-lately supercop, complete with a Beginner's Guide to Chinese Culture and Civilization to help him ride out the bumps. In no time flat, White conveniently manages to stumble on an international...