Word: boredome
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...Cuban refugees [June 9] are outraged at their "mistreatment"? They can't take the boredom of waiting while hundreds of thousands of tax dollars are poured into re-establishing them here in the U.S. If the cost of freedom is a few extra days spent sitting around with your buddies, you've got off cheap...
...second with only 16,000. One reason for this amazing proliferation is that Soviet doctrine?especially before the advent of television?emphasized film as a medium of propaganda and indoctrination. Another and perhaps more important reason is that the Soviets are eager for any entertainment as a relief from boredom...
Between 6 a.m. reveille and 10 p.m. lights out, the conscript normally has about two hours of free time. One familiar escape from boredom and routine is alcohol. Buying liquor, however, is difficult. Draftees earn a mere four rubles a month (about $6), enough for 13 bottles of beer or a third of a liter of vodka or a dozen packs of cigarettes. Because draftees are short of cash, the Soviet military has a theft problem. Auto parts, grease, rope, felt boots, heavy overcoats and other items in short supply for civilians are smuggled off base to nearby villages...
...wane. "It hits the regime where it hurts most," says the University of South Carolina's Gordon Smith, who has written extensively on Soviet youth and criminal justice. At the root of the problem are such social ills as alcohol abuse, broken families, crowded living conditions-and boredom. "Drunkenness," says Police Lieut. General Pyotr Oleinik, "is the mother of hooliganism...
...film contains more than two hours of intellectual horror, too much suggestive fear for those audiences hoping for a bood and guts creature form the black lagoon/omen/jaws/prophecy, or even those expecting Hitchcock-like suspense. It demands patience, a susceptibility to delicate suspense, a relish for the ounce of boredom that wafts through a hallway before all hell breaks loose. And even with these allowances, The Shining still lacks a telepathic logic that might make it perfect...