Word: boredome
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...gentler inspirations that Muzak calls "environmental music" work for several reasons, particularly for people subject to either stress or boredom. Music is soothing. Oddly enough, Muzak even claims that its recordings make workers feel more in control of their environment and more cared for by their employers. Most important, though, is that workers slow down in mid-morning and midafternoon, and music can counteract that. Muzak's selections get faster as the workers near those slack periods. The company calls that "stimulus progression...
...Hewitt deliver the most uneven performance as Gaston. The playboy with a coeur has always been a difficult one, especially when further tainted with heavy ennui. Jourdan never allowed this boredom to turn to bitterness, but like so much else in this production, the bitterness, but ershadows the sweet. Jourdan made even boredom elegant; Hewitt practically expectorates the chorus "It's a bore" as if he were sending his garcon back with some ill-prepared pleasant...
What emerges is political bedlam and national boredom. But there are other more troubling results: not least the total exhaustion of the candidates, who must perform as political athletes, operating by glands, not by reason; and just as important-the inability of any schoolteacher to tell students approaching voting age how the nation chooses its leaders...
...efficiently evokes the backstage of a rundown vaudeville house, with three large panels of circus-patterned scrim backstage. At several points, backlit actors pantomime the offstage action of the play, alleviating the inevitable boredom of this regrettable Elizabethean convention. But McDonough cannot stop with this modest tactic; he has to include pantomimed metaphor's of the onstage action. Of many egregious examples, the backstage portrayal of a catfight during Bianca's and Katherina's second-act sparring manages to be as insulting as it is cliched...
...existential dramas dealing with death. Instead of being represented by the conventional dagger and funeral scenes to which audiences had become so comfortably accustomed, death became something less frightening, more abstract, and almost comically absurd. Perhaps, Beckett suggested, death was nothing more than a means of alleviating the boredom of an essentially mundane earthly existence. Or alternatively, perhaps it was simply a version of "not being...