Word: boredome
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...Presents: White Collar America. NBC examines the life of America's office workers and probably concludes what we all know: that such work usually involves either cut-throat competition or stifling boredom. Still this is probably worth watching. NBC documentaries are usually meticulously researched and well reported. Ch. 4, 10 p.m. 1 hour...
Adventure Training. There were few amenities to relieve the boredom of chasing an empty horizon for 6,000 monotonous miles. Captain Blyth, as if emulating Captain Bligh, kept comforts to a minimum, removing heaters and fans, feeding his crew on army rations, and limiting them to one fresh-water bath every ten days. "If the men get too comfy down below," he insists, "they won't want to come up on deck to work." On some other boats, living has been easier, with quarters outfitted with stereos, soft chairs and well-stocked freezers...
...shape, the cart-wheel, the star pattern, the pagoda like shapes or one we just called the Spruce St. Variety. There's probably a folk-art monograph and foundation grant in it: "Varieties of the Eave Ornament in the Southeastern U.S. 1880-1920." With color pictures. Out of boredom we began classifying types and snapping a few pictures--to the disbelief and irritation of women on porches who thought we were photographing something going on behind upper story windows...
There was rarely any danger of boredom in Whistler's vicinity. He spent most of his 69 years as an expatriate in England and France working as hard on his bon mots as on his canvases and copper plates. It was entirely fitting that when his collected correspondence was published in 1890, it was entitled The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. Whistler was one of the most vengeful litigants since Shylock. "When I pay you six-and-eightpence, I pay you six-and-eightpence for law, not justice," he once told his solicitor, who had dared suggest that...
...NOBODY goes to a movie six times over just to get banged, briefly, out of boredom. People go back when they are looking for something, be it a vision, an identity, a synthesis of their experience, some sought confirmation of their lives. They go back when a movie excites some inside need they had not acknowledged, when it jars loose a lock on the unconscious. The Exorcist is so ugly that is has to be absorbed unconsciously--and it must have taken hold there, lodged...