Word: boredome
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...their country increased political prestige or an unwonted influx of tourists. Soccer remains a closed language, an alternative to politics, and perhaps after all a harmless substitute for war. For the aficionados of the working and middle classes, it is art, poetry, music, the sole palliation of the boredom of the office and workbench...
...film. But if you see the film without preconceptions or a burning need to analyze, and stick it out to the bitter end, The Mother and the Whore can be everything Last Tango in Paris was supposed to be and wasn't--a masterpiece about our enslavement to sex, boredom, and film, worth every one of its 215 minutes...
...Pickle" is more or less what the amateur would expect: "overall satisfaction with the general state of your life, love, and pursuit of happiness is forecast." "Petunia" shows a need for professional guidance. Growing outdoors, "these flowers signify pleasant friendly social affairs." A petunia indoors foretells "a period of boredom...
...beginning to be aware that a long period of nearly uninterrupted economic growth has virtually come to an end. Says Columbia University Historian Fritz Stern: "For 25 years a steadily expanding economy protected Europe from major upheavals. Young radicals might thunder against the consumer society, against the endless boredom that comes with bourgeois life, but the workers of Europe found embourgeoisement an exhilarating experience...
...bare feet. The characters in her subsequent books, among them such bestsellers as Aimez-Vous Brahms? and A Certain Smile, tended to be beautiful, languid, bent on self-destruction. They were often driven by pangs of ennui, whose meaning in French implies more cosmic pain than its English translation ("boredom") can possibly convey...