Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"At this point, the convention is going to be very interesting--we had thought this was going to be a very boring convention...and now all the talk about the language of the platform is really getting people excited," he said.
The movie regrettably has several darker, nastier moments that cannot pass unmentioned. At one point two thugs try to kill an inconvenient tenant, a babushka-clad elderly woman, by pushing her down the stairs: we see her crash painfully down to the sound of goofy music. A few roaches rely...
"Joe's Apartment" has the look and feel of a short film stretched out to feature length and therefore cannot sustain the audience's interest: the writers simply didn't work hard enough at filling in the gaps. The roaches--they are the flying variety, for all you critter hobbyists...
And it's not that life here is boring, exactly. But if Washington was a person and the country was a street, the capital city would be arrested for loitering.
Second, intense political discussions never really seem to arise. Bars are too noisy, and the subject matter is too boring. Besides, many of us are very entranced by the fact that we have been sworn to secrecy about the particulars of our jobs--why, indeed, would I write a column...