Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sullivan, who once played Hamlet at Harvard, says the "to-be-conservative- or -not-to-be-conservative" question is "boring." "With the collapse of the Soviet empire and the general discrediting of the Great Society liberalism, what does it mean for a magazine to move from left to right?" he...
On acting: "People assume I've been robbed of my childhood. I don't think that's true. I've gotten something extra. Most kids, all they have is school. That's why they get so mad when it's boring and feel so bad if they fail. I have...
A: Usually because most jobs are easily learned, and once you learn them, they just become stupid and insulting and boring and repetitive and there's no hope of advancement. If there's no hope of advancing you might as well go off and learn something new.
The gimmicks often leave little time for insightful discussion. But gimmicks are what a struggling network is about, and Meet the Press is boring anyway.
So instead of saying anything clever about Matt Groening's brilliance, I'd like to look at the Simpsons' relationship to the Fox network. What makes the Simpsons so funny, at the most basic level, is that they are losers. Given an opportunity to screw-up--lose a million-dollar...