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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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The film is not without problems. One wishes Diego and the other gay characters weren't such stereotypes. In addition to sporting the traditional lisp, limp wrists and swishy hips, Diego listens to Maria Callas, reads Cavafy and Walt Whitman and drinks Indian tea from Sevres cups. It seems as...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Alea's Tropical, Topical 'Strawberry' Dips Into Castro Critique | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

Sure life is boring at Harvard/Cambridge. But can't you people put this in some sort of perspective? Dan Murray Lexington, MA

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Streisand Does Not Merit Hype | 2/15/1995 | See Source »

Thus collectors must be interesting, no? No, it turns out, in Geoff Nicholson's cheerfully loopy comic novel Hunters & Gatherers (Overlook; 215 pages). Nicholson's hero, a feckless would-be writer named Steve Geddes, has unwisely taken a publisher's advance to produce a book on collectors. But the collector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE OF EACH | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

The Dave Matthews Band jammed more in its first song than Big Head Todd did in its whole set. Instead, Todd turned in boring songs that sounded like variations of "Knocking on Heaven's Door," or worse, like something by Eddie and the Cruisers. Their version of Led Zeppelin's...

Author: By Michael R. Colton, | Title: OpArT | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

Old Colonel Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) and the wife who has very sensibly left him named their firstborn Alfred and their last born Samuel, and both are pretty normal, boring American boys--the former (Aidan Quinn) perhaps a little too priggish and self-serving, the latter (Henry Thomas) perhaps a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST OF EDEN, SOUTH OF CANADA | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

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