Word: snores
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...which entered the Billboard charts at No. 1, seems overproduced and drained of fun. One well-intentioned song, Bodhisattva Vow, offers lessons on Buddhist thought -- "I try to make my every action for that highest good/ With the altruistic wish to achieve Buddhahood" -- but the underlying music is a snore...
...still: Would the company have sold a card that said, "Hear you're looking for a black who is your intellectual equal . . . Fat Chance"? The booksellers' shelves are heavy with volumes of the Women-Who-Love-Men-Who-Hate-Women-Who-Are-Too-Good- for-the-Lousy -Jerks-Who-Snore-Anyway variety. Simon & Schuster published No Good Men, 100 pages of cartoons about what slobs and fools men are. No Good Women could not find a publisher...
...sport these days has diminished itself to a snore, the perplexing truth is that marvelous writing about baseball seems to turn up every three weeks. Is it just that the skinny, unathletic kids who grow up to be writers can fantasize comfortably about a game that involves a lot of standing around and occasional light exertion? Or that two dying art forms, the batted ball and the printed word, have decided to keep each other company...
Factories that once resounded to the harsh tympany of steam hammers and hydroturbines now emit only a somnolent midmorning snore. As the gears of a spent nation grind to a halt, the determination and grit once blazing from the face of industrial workers have given way to the tired stare of apathy and depression...
...wallowing in the later stages of drugged stupor. He had come to New York with a mission to explore its gunky side. In his first week he had been mugged--twice. He spent 20 hours a day in those charming boutiques clustered around Times Square. He had an abominable snore. That night I don't think I slept at all, but merely shivered with unadulterated fear...