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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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The disco number's respectable singing and choreography could well have closed the show, except that the plot had failed to rumble to its so-close-you-could-taste-it end. Instead, the audience had to sit through an overblown monologue by a minor character and a boring ballet (featuring...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Pudding Show Is a Recipe for Disgrace | 2/21/1996 | See Source »

Some of these meetings may be boring, and the Faculty Council does wade through a lot of minutiae.

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Faculty Needs To Care | 2/15/1996 | See Source »

Not bad for a substance that's essentially dried-up tree resin. The viscous stuff that eventually turns into amber comes from a variety of ancient trees, mostly conifers, including pines and extinct relatives of sequoias and cedars, but also some deciduous trees. It probably evolved, says Grimaldi, as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREVER AMBER | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

Although wood-boring insects might have been its target, the resin would also trap anything else that happened to stumble into it, including small lizards and frogs. Bad luck for them, but extraordinary good fortune for evolutionary biologists. In one major deposit--a site in New Jersey whose location is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREVER AMBER | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

"You've got to make sure [the class] is not going to be boring," he says.

Author: By Michael T. Jalkut, | Title: Picking Classes... | 2/10/1996 | See Source »

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