Word: boringness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The movie's plot revolves around the sexual involvement (the script makes it hard to call it love) between a conventional teenaged girl and an Angry Young Man Tracey Prescott (Daryl Hannah) is a pretty, blonde teenager from a wealthy family. She is surrounded by boring, anxious people, from a...
Because of the station's limited size, life on board may be somewhat restricted, but hardly boring. Besides doing their regular-chores, the workers will occasionally have to leave the station in small maneuverable capsules to retrieve satellites for repair or help nudge additional units into place. In their...
"People come out here and they get very little playing time but they stay," Restic says. "We don't lose people. It becomes very boring running the same plays every week. In our case it's never boring because we have changes every week."
Internally, as the airport ceremony for the wounded demonstrated, Castro is appealing to patriotic fervor rather than revolutionary enthusiasm to maintain his hold on the populace. There is, in fact, little of the old guerrilla spirit left in Cuba: like Castro, the revolution has gone middle-aged and gray. Visitors...
"We tried to talk him out of enlisting," remembers his brother Ignacio, 26, who has the same job as his father. "But he said this place was too boring for him." He also wanted to emulate his eldest brother Juan, who had been in the Marine Corps. Two years ago...