Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Simon has slipped into the most tempting and dangerous situation for a successful writer: sticking with his old and reliable topics. His career has been built upon an insightful and humorous look at the oddities of American families and relationships, and this has become a comfortable niche to wallow in...
The factory robot that crushed a man to death in Japan last year did little to silence the talk that machines are a threat to human preeminence. That talk has been alive ever since people first discovered that they could manufacture tools vastly superior to themselves; in Samuel Butler'...
BY THE END of 1980, the rise of the right had become boring. Ronald Reagan's rousing nomination in July debunked the common wisdom that he was too conservative; even before the November election, he had proven that, win or lose, he had developed in sizable and committed following. Cover...
"It was basically a boring match. We were favored, and we won," Coach Don Usher said later.
Yet Personal Best survives these moral shortcomings with the help of a talented group of actors and some remarkable camera work. Towne's script has some irritating holes--Do either Chris or Tory go to school? If not, why does Chris waste her time reading biology? If so, why don...