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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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I WAS first victimized by a cappella music as an innocent high school student. Visits to my school from several campus a cappella groups, from Bowdoin, Columbia, and Yale made me drowsy and nauseous. From the first "doo-wap," I found the music boring and all the songs the same...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: It's Muzak to My Ears | 11/28/1990 | See Source »

THE Stairmaster sits upstairs from all of the other weight equipment, as if it belongs in a class above the nautilus machines and the ordinary, technologically boring stationary bikes.

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Climbing the Stairway to Hell | 11/20/1990 | See Source »

Bradley could be a straight shooter again -- it is in him somewhere -- and he insists that he gets the message implicit in his close call: "I hear what the voters are saying; they don't think politicians have a lot to offer." But does he really get it? Bradley still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Downsizing the Giants | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

Text is so boring. And what a text! It espoused "traditional values." I don't mean to be difficult, but isn't that rather vague? After all, it is traditional for the Indians, er, excuse me, Native Americans, to value community ownership of land. Is that what I am supposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Symbols, ENOUGH Is Enough | 11/17/1990 | See Source »

Last week, I read in The Crimson that the pinkers are planning to mount a counter-campaign. In the interest of my own personal sanity and the conservation of thumbtacks, I decided start my own group, ENOUGH. The philosophy is simple. Date and share an abode with whomever you please...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Symbols, ENOUGH Is Enough | 11/17/1990 | See Source »

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