Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Britons were aghast. Winston Churchill, the late Prime Minister's grandson and M.P. for the Stretford district where Powell spoke, called such sentiments "insane, venomous outpourings." Wolverhampton Laborite Renee Short was more explicit. She accused Powell of purveying twaddle and advised: "Belt up, you big bore...
...limits to the point of reprimanding speakers for talking too long about issues previously discussed. Whitlock was clearly growing tired of the housing debate last year, and his replacement Fox came forward with a definite plan that probably will carry the day. And Collier, a computer expert who annually bore the bad news of the housing lottery, is no longer available for the committee to kick around. Spence, his replacement, is now talking about an assignment system that would ask students to name only three choices; that also appears to have support on the CHUL...
BURDEN--characterized by acerbic Voice press columnist Alexander Cockburn as an "outstanding argument for 100 per cent inheritance tax"--is a dabbler. He dabbles in New York City politics, where he is a city councilman. He dabbles in Manhattan society. He dabbles in journalism, and maybe journalism began to bore him. Just as Burden yawned, there was a check for $7.6 million in his mouth like a big moth, a check from Rupert Murdoch--they had mutual friends--offering him $8.25 a share for his stock. Murdoch had chartered a jet and flown to Aspen to make the offer...
Despite an occasional scene that flares up with emotional violence and pain, The Trip Back Down is a play sadly lacking in astonishment. It repeats itself, it is predictable, and it is a soapy, sentimental bore. Bobby Horvath (John Cullum) is a middle-aging stock-car racer whose psyche is skidding on a wet track. His earlier dreams of flashing under the wire first in the Indianapolis 500 have now become the wearying nightmares of a perpetual loser. He has come home to Mansfield, Ohio, to recoup his losses, possibly by never racing again, but at least by making peace...
While accepting preassigned roles, the characters must remain a bit unpredictable because some risk and mystery are essential to sexual excitement and the ritual victory that goes along with it. Says Stoller: "If unvaryingly predictable, [the characters] bore one; on the other side, if they do not stick close enough to their assigned role, anxiety results and they are traded in." He believes that the loss of risk and mystery explains why so many lovers are rapidly abandoned and why many married people describe their mates as no longer sexually exciting. The hostility of sex, he says, also explains...