Word: yawned
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Simatovic is not a hero in Belgrade, nor is he the villain that he is in the eyes of many Bosnians and Kosovo Albanians. The appointments of Lukic and others were greeted with a yawn. Even figures who have become synonymous with evil in the West have yet to fall from grace in long-isolated Serbia. Not long ago, 500 Belgraders turned out on a midwinter morning to honor the memory of Zeljko (Arkan) Raznjatovic, the notorious paramilitary gangster who was gunned down in a hotel lobby a year ago. Dressed in rich furs and long black overcoats, the mourners...
...Atlantic Alliance. Yawn. Or perhaps a ritual bow is the more appropriate response. It's a Great Worthy, one of those things politicians shower with clichés about D-day and the Berlin Airlift before shifting their speeches to the interesting stuff. We heard it last week when George W. Bush met Tony Blair for the first time to wave the torch of the Anglo-American "special relationship." Said Bush: "This is a chance for me to tell the Prime Minister how dedicated my administration will be to an alliance that has made a huge difference in the world...
...this time we think you have a pretty good idea of undergraduate life. Now, forget about it. You'll never have to think about it again. Go to sleep. Wake up Harvard's next president. Realize this was all just a dream, a horrible, horrible dream. Sigh with relief. Yawn. Stretch. Start calling donors...
...considering that lofty gallery owners, art historians and curators chose these artists from over 100 New England artists. The chosen artists are neither original in what they want to say nor subtle in conveying it. As a result, most of their work produces a gag reflex or a bored yawn...
...cultural fashions, this one started to pale. Maybe the talk was too hot (listeners can't stay angry forever). Or political issues lost some urgency in a time when the economy was robust and, for most Americans, the rest of the globe ceased to exist (Bosnia, Belfast, world hunger... yawn). On radio, the sports-talk format took hold; so, late at night, did the extraterrestrial conspiracy theories of Art Bell and his guests. The Radio Right needed a new hook, and a close presidential election was just the thing to energize the commentators and their faithful. Gore might not have...