Word: boredome
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...just that. And at a time when "Godspell" has recently been slapped onto the screen, and the term Jesus-freak is flung at a goodly portion of our "alienated" generation, a modern version of the same legend which stresses the similarities between past and present draws a yawn of boredom without any trouble...
...Dziga-Vertov group are, in this sense, films of struggle. To begin to talk about them, you must first of all understand those against whom they struggle, instead of deploring their inaccessibility, their unintellibility, their lack of human warmth, etc; as though criticism's first task was to prohibit boredom in the spectator...
...down. And occasionally he gives the tape some irritant value, as in an inverted closeup of his own face repeating over and over the words "lip sync." But that is all: not much. In any case it seems a trifle late to be disinterring, once again, the idea of boredom as an aesthetic principle. Nauman's cool is of the kind that precedes rigor mortis...
These stories represent an almost too successful literary strategy of simulated monotony. Like the films of his fellow countryman Antonioni, Moravia's near fantasies are surreal studies of boredom at point of hysteria. There is little sense of time or place. Moravia's women seldom have names. They seem to inhabit a kind of limbo, a never land of listlessness. Often they are rich, like the antiheroine of I Haven't Time, who is the seventh-best-dressed woman in the world. But their money buys them nothing they want because they really have no wants they...
...events in the village itself, boredom might have set in sooner if the press had not flooded the historic site. AIM turned away none of the reporters who could reach the village, and the top AIM leaders were accessible to anyone with a notebook, camera, or microphone...