Word: boredome
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...vague, improbable fantasy about an elite society of aristocratic decadent French diplomats marooned in Thailand with no one to talk to but each other's wives. These men and women live in splendid Thai places, sunbathe and give parties, and murmur complacently that "our only enemy is boredom." Their unwritten rule is to fight boredom." Their unwritten rule is to fight boredom by making love. Throughout the movie the characters keep asking each other if they are bored, and the response is predictable...
...WOMAN UNDER THE Influence is a kind of inverted Godfather II. Coppola's film is recognized as socially-relevant because it treats real, albeit distant, issues, while in Woman, the anxiety and boredom of housewifery is close to home but often surrealistically overstated. Mabel waits for the schoolbus to return with her kids, pacing like an anxious speed freak, demanding passersby to give her the time, and chasing after them when they try to ignore her. At a party she gives for her own children, she stampedes them into a performance of Swan Lake and supervises their deaths...
...Cape a long time; years ago he lived in a mobile home on the beach in Provincetown, fishing and running his four-wheel drive over the dunes. Now, he runs a cottage colony in Wellfleet that stays open from the late spring to the early autumns. To relieve the boredom and loneliness, he paints and draws away the long January and February hours. Pete cautions anyone rash enough to think that staying in Wellfleet through the late fall and winter will not exact a cost. It does...
...combinations; ever-developing, yet sterile; thought that leads to nothing; mathematics that produces no result; art without works; architecture without substance, and nevertheless... more lasting in its being and presence than all books and achievements; the only game that belongs to all people and all ages ... to slay boredom, to sharpen the senses, to exhilarate the spirit...
...which prohibit "cat calls, horseplay, making preparation to leave before the whistle sounds, littering, wasting time, and loitering in the toilets." In addition, some companies have the right to discipline workers for "using abusive language" and 'distracting the attention of other employees." Levison sums up the much-written about boredom of blue-collar work well...