Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the jaundiced eyes of many businessmen, nationalization seems to be part of a general "policy of revenge"?along with the stiff new surtaxes on expense accounts, four-star hotels, private boats and incomes over $65,000. Says one private banker, with considerable hyperbole: "My family and I are...
Another widely held view (or widely parroted opinion) is that golf is "the most boring spectator sport." But many sports are more boring to watch than golf. No other sport, for example, has golf carts. Even if you aren't playing, you can still drive the cart. Few sports have...
Grim tribes of sociologists have reported back from office and factory that most workers find their labor mechanical, boring, imprisoning, stultifying, repetitive, dreary, heartbreaking. In his 1972 book Working, Studs Terkel began: "This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence-to the spirit as well as...
"I've been working on a financing deal to buy a piece of equipment for one of our divisions. On the first day we got a super rate, it was a great idea, sounded easy. Let's do it. Class is over. But the seller had never decided...
In Loitering With Intent, Spark's birstling dailogue bounces back and forth, carrying with it the seeds of power. As attention shifts, characters shuffle, hesitate and lose their authority. Fleur Talbot, the narrator of the story, is a novelist, recounting the events and characters that populate her life and her...