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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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These three guys are playing their guts out. Rocks need more albums like this one. The songs on Let Me Come Over are truly memorable, and only get better the more you listen to them. Buffalo Tom is putting passion back into an affected and boring alternative music scene.

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Buffalos and Hogs: A musical Menagerie | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

Hogwood traces his interest in "historically informed" performance to his early activities and studies, and, above all, the influence of Cambridge musicologist Thurston Dart: "When I was at school and heard Thurston Dart talking on the radio, I really thought his stories of the detections of flaws and fakes and...

Author: By John D. Shepherd, | Title: Deconstructing and Discovering Classical Music Through Historically Informed Performance: | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

Both despots believed utterly in themselves and were indifferent to the ^ suffering and destruction they caused to achieve their ends. Hard as it is to realize it, Bullock writes, "the key to understanding both Stalin and Hitler is . . . that they were entirely serious about their historic roles." In private they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evil That Two Men Did | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

As Helaine Alpert steers her shopping cart down one aisle and up another at the Food Emporium in Scarsdale, N.Y., an overhead electronic billboard flashes the specials of the day. On the rim of Alpert's cart, a 6-in. by 9-in. video screen automatically displays a list of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supermarkets Grocery-Cart Wars | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

Even the best and most popular tracks from Achtung Baby, such as "One" and "Mysterious Ways," suffered in live performance. Over-familiarity from excessive radio airplay combined with the band's unremarkable and unenthusiastic presentation to make fine material almost boring.

Author: By Rita L. Berardino, | Title: U2: Not As Good As the REAL THING | 3/20/1992 | See Source »

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