Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WEIRD IS FINE by me. Obnoxious is OK, too. I'm also basically tolerant of arrogant, exasperating, condescending and offensive. But I have no patience for boring. I can't deal with dull. Dull books, dull movies, dull people, dull days--they drive me to distraction.
Caruba has always been obsessed with ennui. He links boredom to drug and alcohol abuse, high school dropout rates, violent crime, alarming suicide statistics and the general decline of the American family. He also thinks that boredom is, well, boring. There are better ways to spend a life.
So in 1984, Caruba founded The Boring Institute, dedicated to the proposition that "There's No Excuse for Being Bored!" He designated July as "National Anti-Boredom Month." He began releasing his Fearless Forecasts of TV's Fall Flops. (Bad news for "Eerie, Indiana.") He began announcing his annual list...
Many pros feel that Daly will have to change the very peculiarities that have made him golf's latest hero if he is to get the most out of his prodigious natural ability. It may be that Daly's swing is too complicated and his game too reliant on intangibles...
Bly published his first book of poetry, Silence in the Snowy Fields, in 1962. "The land was flat and boring," he says. "That was my whole problem in writing poems about that country. I called it Silence in the Snowy Fields because at least it was a little more interesting...