Word: boredome
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...cost $90 and polo shirts $40, with such clothing considered luxury items in a society where the average salary is $100 a month."They are taking milk away from seven-year-olds," said Ramon Leiva, 33, a Havana Linotypist. Others spoke of greater surveillance, fewer freedoms and just plain boredom. "The repression has increased," noted Landa. "They ask for your ID card everywhere. They're always watching you. People are afraid to talk. There's no spirit...
...Wagner and Beethoven, acknowledges Oskar's drum. It beats in time to the modern German effort to recreate Hegel's sense of history, Goethe's sense of self, Nietzche's sense of strength and Gunter Grass' cheeky sense of post-modern myth--the eerie drumbeat of barbarism, mysticism, and boredom...
...even this showdown featuring the East's cradles of liberty cannot free me from the boredom of the first 46 minutes of each contest...
...gold sequins, helmet and spear, rambles onto the stage to tell us she got lost in this forest running away from a clumsy abductor who dropped her from her balcony. This lady of the lowlands. Donna Ribalda (Melody Scheiner) feigns gusto in her aria, but soon gives in to boredom...
...second thing you learn about Brazil is that Brazilians love their beach. The shores of Ipanema and Leblon, sparsely populated during the week, are jammed each weekend with government workers who jet in from Brasilia--the nation's capital--to escape the boredom of a city built from scratch in the isolated interior. Four-story apartment buildings and kids playing futebol line the quiet streets of these neighborhoods although the construction of a high-rise hotel occasionally pierces the calm. These districts have their weekly fruit-and-vegetable market on a sidestreet like the famous "Copacabana." But Copacabana has been...