Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure. But don't tell anyone. Naturally, the word spreads, to a drinking buddy, his girlfriend, a wife and so on. There's nothing wrong with the narrative idea here, and the reader should skid amiably into the underbrush of Chapter 2, as the treasure finders turn into thieves and...
Though this is the least ambitious movie Allen has made in decades -- for better or worse the return to "pure" comedy his critics have urged on him -- he seems to have a little more on his mind than updating The Thin Man. For one thing, Double Indemnity, which he quotes...
Phillip Kaufmann's film adaptation captures most elements of the novel--the real elements, not the perceived ones--and presents them with faithful exactitude. In fact, so close is the adaptation that readers of the novel may find the film boring and tensionless. Even the fresh elements which Kaufmann brings...
But only the hardest '50s egghead could deny that Halberstam has cobbled a blue-chip beach read. Shrewdly designed for today's shorter attention spans, The Fifties plugs in dozens of set pieces, vignettes and profiles from the period spanning the last days of World War II and the 1960...
In most years, the only thing more boring than Commencement exercises is reading about them in Harvard Magazine.