Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spike Lee never makes a boring movie. With arresting neon credits, video clips and Prince's music, even the beginning makes the audience sit up and take notice. "Girl 6" illustrates the changing tides of hope and despair of a woman who is about to fail in her dream of...
The CIA decided that this interdiction method could also cripple some critical equipment that Gaddafi had already purchased--60-ton rotary boring machines used to tunnel into the mountain. Analysts traced them to the German manufacturer Westfalia-Becorit. The firm's executives told German officials they legally delivered the machines...
In early 1993 a CIA team marched into the offices of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and spread out before his aides their satellite photos and intelligence reports on Tarhunah. The analysts had identified a key part in the boring machines: the large bits at the front, which would quickly wear...
The CIA at first thought disabling the boring machines would set the Tarhunah project back 10 years. But the agency has never had detailed intelligence on how much progress the Libyans had made with the tunneling before the drill bits wore out. Moreover, Gaddafi has skillfully found ways around Washington...
Do the writers, actors and producers who must do their sponsors' bidding feel used? Not necessarily. Carvey says the parody- as-plug idea was his. "It was just kind of boring to call it The Dana Carvey Show," he says. "The idea came off of sports shows like the Doritos...