Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are poetic conventions and cliches and codes in composing a personal ad. One specifies DWF (divorced white female), SBM (single black male), GWM (gay white male) and so on, to describe marital status, race, sex. Readers should understand the euphemisms. "Zaftig" or "Rubenesque," for example, usually means fat. "Unpretentious...
Michael Spire (guitar, amp) -- Along Brattle Street, Spiro plays three or four times a week. He writes and performs "comedy music" since "it's less boring than playing Neil Young and James Taylor songs all night." He is particularly proud of his song "Music, Sex, and Cookies," which played nationally...
Diplomatic efforts made for a series of boring special reports, but it brought the hostages home alive.
"The uniform architecture at most major universities is boring," said Samuel A. Halaby '60 of Rochester, N.Y. "Without getting philosophical, the diversity of this architecture reflects the diversity of [Harvard's] student body."
Yet another consequence of university control of contemporary literature is an abundance of esoteric criticism, far removed from the substance of life and history that make literature rich and relevant. With authority that must be the envy of any undergraduate, Epstein notes the ubiquitous "demonstration of techniques for proving that...