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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like reading somebody else's diary, or looking directly into your subconscious, it's the sort of unmediated honesty that most people can do without. (Of course, it can be tempting, not to say cathartic, to take a good whack at the guy responsible for the 12 most boring and/or...

Author: By Dmitri Tymoczko, | Title: The Evaluation Game | 12/19/1995 | See Source »

It's time for the British to realize that successful breeding isn't always consistent with "family values." After all, the only humane solution would have been to let Charles run off with Camilla long ago, leaving a test tube of sperm behind in Buckingham Palace. His mom could then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIANA, SURROGATE PRINCESS | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

Unfortunately, this successfully defamiliarized production of "Othello" is not a good one. Levine sacrifices both vicarious appeal and smoothness when he casts lago as a nice, boring guy, Othello as a quiet, badly-dressed general, and several minor characters as masked, "mechanical" bores. A sense of alienation is easy to...

Author: By Hsuan L. Hsu, | Title: Othello' Distances Viewers 'Too Well' | 12/14/1995 | See Source »

The film is based on material Nicholas Pileggi gathered for a nonfiction book that has just been published, and the screenplay he wrote with director Martin Scorsese is at its best in its reportorial passages. If you want to know just how the Mafia skimmed the profits from its Las...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: HIGH STAKES | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

Perhaps the most powerful aspect of the production was its sense of secrecy and isolation. To keep the principals talking to one another instead of playing out their differences in the press, as they are wont to do, the base was sealed from the media. The three Presidents were not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

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