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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hatch charged that "these debates have been stilted and boring. Next time let's leave the entourage behind. It would be like Lincoln and Douglas and we'd really have a debate here."

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bush Joins GOP Candidates for N.H. Debate | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

Like so many other aspects of this enigmatic end of the millennium--enticing and sinister, like a ticking package wrapped with a golden ribbon--the size and scope of the world's party refuses to resolve itself before the last minute. There's ample time for a backlash against the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auld Lang Sigh | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Re Eric Pooley's report [REAL POLITICS, Nov. 8] on Al Gore's "groveling for votes" and Bill Bradley's "barely asking": I would ask, Just what is it that journalists want from politicians, anyway? The newshounds tell candidates who seem straitlaced and unemotional that they should loosen up. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 29, 1999 | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Sarandon's Adele August is running away from nothing very much--a boring small-town life and boyfriend--and she's not running toward much either--a dopey dream that life in Beverly Hills is bound to be more exciting. She is one of those irritating people who cover wrongheadedness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Travels with Mommy | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

"The awkwardness that has set in has come from somebody who doesn't trust being boring...When he was a young man, he never had to dress up who he was," he says.

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gore Spent Undergrad Years Away From Politics | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

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