Word: tedium
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...then I thought that I'd rather not do it somewhere that's all glitzy and forced romantic, like Tahiti or Scores, places that don't represent our real life together, which is actually full of tedium and drudgery, though a really pleasant tedium and drudgery. So I made her a big tofu dinner in our studio apartment. Then I woke her up at 1:30 a.m. and told her that over the past six months, I've been tearing up over Friends episodes about marriage and the ending of What Women Want. I told her that my life...
...Although the leaders have manically driven and flown around the country campaigning, the journalists in pursuit of them on press buses have seemed more dutiful than excited. To enliven the tedium of long journeys with little opportunity for much real journalistic coverage, media on both the Labour and Tory buses played a bingo game. This involved picking slips out of a hat filled with Blair's and Hague's oft-repeated phrases, with scoring based on which of the phrases popped...
...apartments for less. The cheap rents and the dope (which was everywhere, three dollars a bag, with 50 or 60 people lined up on 2nd St. and Avenue B waiting for the dope store to open every morning) attracted the fringe players, the ones who couldn't handle the tedium in Queens or New Jersey or suburban anywhere. From this crowd of disaffected youth emerged our players, and the stage was CBGB...
...This is the mind's natural reflex of tedium and disgust, much like the revulsion and detumescence experienced after watching hard-core pornography for a little while. After you have seen the Headless Horseman perform three or four ride-by whackings, after you have watched Russell Crowe (Everyman, gone twitchingly postal) take off half a dozen heads, the instruments of human feeling shut down. You react to blood firehosing from a severed carotid as you would to the sight of a man spilling gravy on his tie. Whoops...
...percent of his time on stage reveling in his ability to beat up the defenseless Sosia. It’s a violence without much purpose and with even less humor. Even worse, it’s a violence against the audience, all of whom have to endure the tedium of Sosia’s endless beatings...