Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Berrys may seem at first like your average preppy. New England family, this idea is abruptly dismissed as much too boring for the likes of this movie. For starters, Frank announces calmly that he is queer. But no one in his family seems to care, indeed Bridges' Win...
Hart was leery at first about Caddell, since the aggressive pollster tends to dominate a campaign. But so far the partnership has been smooth. Arguing that Hart was "too boring and issue-oriented," Caddell persuaded him to give his message a "populist tinge."
What should we lead with? What matters most? Let us concede from the start that the problem is subjective, that whatever choice we settle on will be formed more by habit than by a command of history; the press is not in control of history. Getting bored with Beirut? It...
Yet the short remarks by Kurt Vonnegut on Nuclear War and John Gardner's posthumous advice to young fiction writers remained in my thoughts after the ephemeral had been forgotten. A few facts from the "Index," which was designed to "reflect the shifting currents of fact below the surface of...
An Israeli-Palestinian symposium that took place; at Harvard earlier this month began as one more meeting on this well-known, sometimes boring, conflict. But it finished as one of the most encouraging gatherings ever in the history of Israeli-Palestinian conferences.