Word: boringness
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Not that Batali is boring. He's just shockingly down to earth for such a talented cook in this era of celebrity chefdom. He wears shorts and weird shoes (usually orange clogs or Chuck Taylors), doesn't get his madcap red hair cut often enough, talks about football a lot...
The real test will come later this afternoon, from around 4 to 7 p.m. Pacific Coast Time, the typical peak demand during the winter. If the state can manage that period - and it already did OK during this morning's peak -things should be fine. But everyone cautions that in...
Clinton was such a cartoon that anyone who entered his orbit immediately became an absurd, two-dimensional character. Ken Starr, once a boring lawyer, magically sprouted a buckle hat and musket. And, like all cartoon villains, Starr became single-mindedly obsessed with catching his wisecracking prey. He did everything short...
What we got instead was a year so copacetic, Neville Chamberlain could have handled it (at least for the first 10 months). The year was, until November, so boring that people across the globe staged protests over higher gas prices and trade-group meetings.
For the rest of the year, the public did its best to ignore two presidential candidates, George W. Bush and Al Gore, who insisted there were big issues at stake. Instead of paying attention to them, most folks watched some fascinating scenes roll past: thousands of anti-globalization protesters disrupting...