Word: tedium
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...this coming: because it's not really socially acceptable to be unhappy about happiness, the Carolyn Burnhams of the world can't really make any sort of change to it. How to cope? Why, by suppressing everything inside, be it good or bad-thereby further emphasizing the emotionless tedium of yuppiedom. After all, the first and second rules of Fight Club are that you don't talk about Fight Club...
...week ago Saturday, the Governor could be found with Dad at the Ryder Cup golf tournament, having skipped the tedium of the California Republican Party's convention. To spur the American team on to its jingoistic, fist-pumping victory, Bush gave a pep talk in which he compared the brave golfers fighting to win a noisome corporate-infested sporting event to the brave men who fought to save the Alamo--the use of the profound in service of the mundane...
...class as performance piece, Tatar keeps the lecture lighthearted and breaks up her lesson with intermission playtime. "At 'halftime' we have a trivia challenge-a two or three minute break usually centered on a theme. Once I had the Norman Bates trivia challenge about mothers. It breaks up the tedium...
...airtight bubble of Harvard Square, someone from section is sipping tea at the next table or a friend is in the adjoining fitting room even when you aren't on Harvard property proper. So the summer is for breaking out. Three peaceful months of respite from the tedium of continual human interaction and from an active gossip mill (one that keeps churning despite the scarcity of worthwhile grist...
...will the current blip on the sales charts really endure? Zomnir hopes so. "The whole earring thing was considered wild and crazy 10 years ago. Now it's common," she says. But she concedes that men are "not big on maintenance"--we're talking tedium: a trim, a filing, cuticle removal, and then a base coat, two primary coats and a top clear coat, each and every week. On the other hand, she says, "guys can get away with chipped nails more than women...