Word: boredomã
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...comes suddenly, without reflection or resolution, as Archimboldi prepares to depart for Santa Teresa—the novel’s first cause. “2666” begins with an epigraph from Charles Baudelaire (“An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom??) and for many of the book’s critics, it never delivers more than that. But the novel’s central aspiration—perhaps disastrously, the one that can be the easiest to overlook—is unfathomably ambitious: a phenomenological study of destruction...
After leaving The Game on Saturday in the fourth quarter “due to cold and general boredom??, James A. Fish ’10 and his sister, Nicole M. Fish, a senior at Yale who was also in the stands, had the following text message exchange: “Me: FALE Nicole: YOU SUCK Me: Who sucks? Scoreboard what? Nicole: Dude i don’t care—it was so cold i left” As the Harvard student body celebrated the win on Saturday, the victory was particularly sweet for the few siblings...
...trancey/synthesizer sounds that have characterized their recent live shows—back to basics, the album consists almost entirely of actual acoustic instruments, without samples or synths. “Seadrum,” a 23:03 masterpiece, begins sounding like nothing else in the entirety of the Boredom??s formidable oeuvre of music—the first minute or so of the song consists of Yoshimi’s lone voice beautifully singing a wordless jazz riff. Her sustained final note fades into a rising tide of chimes and deep tribal drums that steadily pound away...
Boston Red Sox shortstop will conduct a seminar on how to speak with reporters by forming English sentences while simultaneously saying nothing. Garciaparra has mastered the art of “boredom?? in media interviews and will explore the development of such phrases as “I just go out there and compete” and “we’re gonna give it 110 percent.” Students will be required to watch Bull Durham and must conduct three tape-recorded interviews with Harvard Crimson reporters to illustrate their progressing skills...
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