Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This years batch of commencement speeches are like most commencement speeches: cliche, vague, effete, boring. Instead of serving up banal generalizations, I wish they would tell us something we don't know, maybe even drop a political bombshell like the Marshall Plan. They should offer some practical advice or, at...
And this is exactly the problem. A writer who can make Bernstein's sex life boring is capable of any enormity. Respectful to a fault, but devoid of any spice or sauce, Leonard Bernstein is the kind of passionless hagiography that Leonard Bernstein would have hated.
What De Kooning found at the end of this highway, however, when he moved permanently to Long Island in 1963, was mostly suds and mayonnaise. The long $ series of pink squidgy pictures -- landscapes, nudes splayed like frogs in memory of Dubuffet, and female clam diggers -- that issued from his studio...
DANGER IS BORING
By the time this is printed, the election results may already be out, and I'm sure the press there has been covering the process, so I won't discuss the boring details but instead will share what it was actually like in Johannesburg at the time of the voting...