Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Interest in the drug habits of the rich and famous, of course, is now passe. The dreary repetition of reports detailing the dope usage of rock TV, and movie stars is now an established feature of modern newspapers, and moreover, society has virtually accepted wholesale the social use of many...
"It's the nature of journalism to focus on the immediate, and the immediate isn't always important," Koppel says. He also admits that a few shows have been less than intellectually stimulating. "We did one from the base of Mt. Everest Technologically, it was miraculous. But there wasn't...
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT has become boring. These days executions are as commonplace as space shuttle launches. As a result, extensive media coverage of executions has all but ceased, civil libertarians find themselves saddled with too many causes to fight effectively, and "law-and-order" fans have virtually no more tiresome judicial...
If anything, lethal injections, firing squads, and electrocutions will soon prove too boring for American audiences. After the novelty wears off, Nielsen ratings will begin to drop, and the state's "producers" will have to come up with a more captivating formula. The process might degenerate into a variant of...
When the troops began to call the townsfolk "Bennies" (after a good-natured but dim-witted character on a popular British soap opera), the islanders picked up the name, which they now use more often than the time-honored "Kelpers" (after the seaweed that they once harvested). Locals, in turn...