Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Straight from the sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney, the courtly lover came to life here at Meehan Auditorium Saturday night, and he bore a strong resemblance to the Harvard hockey team...
...will try out for the line this spring. But Joyce Moore, 36, whose daughter Sonia, 14, won Little Miss Houston Baton when she was five, now regrets encouraging her daughter so early. "That way they grow up too quick," she says. "Sonia never liked dolls. Kids her age bore her, and she don't like boys...
...started buying things-ridiculous things. I got a Zippo lighter with scenes from the Mardi Gras painted on both sides. I got $1.50 athletic shirts that had been made up for teams that never claimed them, and bore obscure and worthless insignia. I got jackets in styles that were so passe they were almost chic again. And on my way out I got that pure-wool sweater for $6.98, in quiet tribute to a dream deferred...
...life, the world is full of bad expressionism. The bore relentlessly baying "This is me" has his pictorial equivalent in the artist who decants his steaming guts on the canvas and asks you to admire their authenticity. In our post-psychological culture there are not many artists who make something aesthetically pleasing, let alone compelling, from the repetitive pattern of their own neuroses and fears...
...there aren't so many people interested in investigative reporting, the environment, social and political issues. Where did they go? Well, where did all the people go who didn't vote last week?" Added Jonathan Z. Larsen, New Times' editor since 1974: "We bore readers the bad news, and they slew the messenger...