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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Taming the Tiger doesn't sound like anything else on the radio right now; that's both the CD's strength and its burden. Mitchell refuses to rest easily in the folk-pop genre she helped establish. Tiger is composed of crystalline tones: breezy guitars that ring like wind chimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Joni Mitchell: Burning Bright | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

Take a break from all of the boring Warren Court reading and spend a few hours at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The collection in this museum is not allowed to be changed, according to the stipulations of Isabella Stewart Gardner's will. But, strangely enough, it is now featuring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LISTINGS | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

Matt Damon, quite early in his career, is already being typecast--as a genius, no less. In Rounders, he just sits there, like a boring poker game that has its ending broadcast in the first hand. Rounders offers us convincing evidence that all the players involved should carefully adjust the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITAS | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

In an example of this, Z, dissatisfied with his workaday life, kidnaps the Colony's princess and escapes with her to the fabled "Insectopia." Though the movie is long enough to be boring, the ants' trip into the uncolonized wilderness is short shifted. Rather than saying some key lines about...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diversity of Disney: Anxiety, Allen and Tale of Ants | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

Tell me more, tell me more, coo assorted pundits breathlessly, in their Pink Lady Jackets. How does the media feel about the whole jolly she-bang? Repeated endlessly, these questions have become painfully boring, but it is easy to be horrified by some of the press's efforts for sensationalism...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: Monica's Wily Charms | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

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