Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Justice Blackmun, 75, is a dogged worker who agonizes over ethical and moral issues in major cases. He is deceptively bland, a bookish man with an enormous capacity for work. He is at his desk by 7 a.m., eats breakfast with his clerks at 8, and does not leave until...
The best cartoonists seek not just a likeness but some dominant trait that sums up the man. The result can be at war with the cartoonists' political sympathies. "I have a conflict," says Don Wright of the Miami News. "Basically, I'm rooting for Mondale, but sometimes he...
Why did the World's Fair fail so abysmally? Some blame a poor marketing strategy, others the $15 admission price. It may also be that the attraction of the onetime, small-scale exposition is over, outmoded by well-promoted, futuristic extravaganzas like Walt Disney's Epcot Center in...
Major carriers are enthusiastic about the Airfone's reliability and usefulness. TWA already has equipment on board six planes, and United has prepared an in-flight video pitch to show passengers. No one, however, has yet dealt with what may become a new hazard of air travel for those...
Relieved of the obligation of looking at these photographs, the reader can smartly proceed to skip Eruntics, the monumental work of one Reginald Gulliver. He, as a few people will some day know and then immediately forget, is the one who teaches bacteria to communicate in English. An introduction to...