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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since 1992, Springsteen has released only one album of new music, the fairly boring and indifferently-received The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995), which told long stories with underlying messges of social protest to the accompanying of a softlystrummed guitar, and which sold only 585,000 copies: small change for...

Author: By Joshua Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bruce Springsteen Superstar | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

So one gets the sense that James Whale may have given Gods and Monsters an unfavorable review. Granted, the acting is stellar: Ian McKellen turns yet another masterful performance as the aging filmmaker, Brendan Fraser gives a surprisingly adept take on Clayton Boone, the naive young love interest of the...

Author: By John T. Meier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HIGH ART IN `MONSTERS' | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

Indeed, the slowness and heaviness that characterized the opera Ethan Frome precisely mirrors the tone of the novella. Allanbrook certainly does not change the focus of the novella and his opera portrays the slowness with which life progresses for the Fromes--particularly for Ethan, whose long-defunct love of Zeena...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ETHAN FROME: N EVENING OF OPERA AT ELIOT HOUSE | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

The supposed highlight of this all is the inevitable game itself. While enthusiasts claim that the chaos across the river is an opportunity to enjoy the school spirit that "normal" colleges experience, we have one word: BORING! If ass-numbing cold and nosebleed seats will fullfill you, then Harvard/Yale is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: groovy train | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

JK: I used to do it when I was in college--I was kicked out of school and let back in under the condition that I would seek therapy and I would make stuff up just because I didn't want to be boring. But now I have problems--issues...

Author: By Lauren M. Mechling, | Title: Talking to the Man Behind the Animation | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

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