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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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The most controversial change (curiously, since nobody spends much time there) is in the Lincoln Sitting Room, recast from fairly boring Reagan-Bush conventionality to Victorian overload. In the family's personal rooms, the palette shifts to pleasant pastels, prompting one visitor to observe that the Bushes' patrician threadbare-and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Family Values | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

This fascinating figure is the subject of a meticulously researched and elegantly written biography by Edmund White. Despite Genet's mammoth size and its tendency to wander from its subject, the book is never boring. White simply writes too well to let our attention stray. His sidetrips are always rewarding...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Thief, Hustler, National Treasure | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

DC-10: Walker's English shortbread. 100% butter. Very British. Very proper. Very boring.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turbulence and Allegies | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

That testimonial is echoed by many young fans in 241 million households planet-wide who tune in for the music and stay to watch "Free Your Mind" news features, interspersed between MTV'S main fodder of music videos and celebrity interviews. Often derided as a vapid, immature channel for rap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Now to a Kid Near You | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

No one could call Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat underproduced. Like Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express, what started life as a sweet little piece for children has been inflated to epic vulgarity. The revival that opened on Broadway last week stars a sphinx somewhat shinier and more purple than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward to The Past | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

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