Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"Missing" is like St. Paul's trip to Damascus, when the former pagan saw the light and was converted to the truth and to Christianity. In this case, ED Horman goes to Santiago and is converted to liberalism because he sees that his government has betrayed him and the American...
The first story in the collection, "Little Creatures," is one of several road trip stories. Road trips are universally acknowledged to be a tricky subject, if only by virtue of their simple formula. It's far too easy to write a boring, pretentious road trip story. Coupland's road stories...
All this takes place in 200 short pages. The book whisks through Bennett's life, briefly introducing his family and acquaintances and leaves him off in his mid-thirties, friendless and rather boring. By that point it is difficult for the reader to care much about Bennett since, in the...
The Bushes may no longer be the First Couple, but they still have that special chemistry. In a speech in California, BARBARA BUSH said her husband was retired in name only. "One thing I can say about George Bush," she commented, "he may not be able to keep a job...
I began my first letter writing campaigns during my freshman year at the University of Edinburgh. There I had plenty of time on my hands. So much time that even drinking from lunch without stopping until three in the morning got boring. I wrote home. I wrote home lots. When...