Word: boredness
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I refer all interested readers to the brilliantly remastered version of Hitchcock's 1954 thriller Rear Window, in which a bored and bedridden Jimmy Stewart (in a full-leg cast after a run-in with a racecar) witnesses what he thinks is a murder: his salesman neighbor's wife disappears...
But the principle itself translates. At some imperceptible point in the middle of the movie, Jimmy Stewart's snooping shifts from being the forgivable voyeurism of a bored man waist-deep in plaster to the important surveillance of a concerned citizen. As soon as he and Grace Kelly convince themselves...
It's a growth industry - and for very good reason. Burgeoning Web companies face the prospect of a 20-year-old being able, across international boundaries, to halt the entire business of a multibillion-dollar corporation. Private industry isn't about to wait for law enforcement agencies - and the problems...
Yes, bored. The novelty of seeing live body-slams soon wore off, and somehow the headlocks just weren't as dramatic without WWF's in-your-face camera close-ups. Indoor fireworks always impress me, and the ones at Smackdown! were no exception; but this time only because I was...
AT: After the Restoration, the Comedy of Manners took over as the dominant form of drama, so theater began to focus more on language and wit and there was less brute physicality. Think about the precursors to the Oscar Wilde-type play, where it's all about the aristocracy sitting...