Word: boringness
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Being famous from birth - Moon was born in 1967, when her father was at the pinnacle of his career - causes certain problems. "I definitely get a lot animosity from people who think I inherited a fortune or something," she says. "People really tend to think that I?m free and...
Once reserved for a necessary but ultimately boring civic duty, Election Day could become one of the nation?s most exhilarating holidays. If so, trace it back to today, when former Presidents Carter and Ford delivered a long-awaited report on Election 2000 and how to make future elections run...
CHRIS WEBBER loves the people of Sacramento. He just hates Sacramento. If that sounds like twisted logic, you've obviously never been to the home of America's best basketball fans--and hey, how 'bout that California State Railroad Museum? Nonetheless, after complaining for three years about how he was...
Ghost World originated in Eightball, a serial comic book by Daniel Clowes, whose anatomizing of anomie--Pussey!, David Boring--has made him the R. Crumb of Generation Y. (The Ghost World title is graffiti Clowes saw on a wall in Chicago.) Enid and Rebecca first appeared in 1993. "The characters...
To most consumers, though, if there's no building, no tellers and no long lines, there's no bank. "For the vast majority of people, dull and boring are exactly the attributes they're looking for in a bank," says Octavio Marenzi, managing director at research firm Celent Communications.