Word: boredome
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...redefinition of the work rules that will result in some rehiring and elimination of extra chores, which workers claim rush them as the autos move by at an average of one every 36 seconds. G.M. added some of these chores partly in the hope of alleviating the mind-numbing boredom of endlessly doing just one task...
...style are extreme, deadpan literalness of image, generally repainted from photos with an airbrush, immaculate precision of surface, and a taste for mechanical subjects such as cars, fire trucks and long expanses of shiny kitchenware. The average result is an almost unimaginably stupid and passive materialism-the boredom of Warhol's silk-screened photos without their threat and bite. Thus, confronted for the nth time with another perfect rendering of reflections on the chrome gizzard of a Harley-Davidson or the pastille skin of a Volkswagen, one is apt to recall Truman Capote's sneer (about another medium...
...longer just for entertainment that men watch eight hours of football a day," says Psychoanalyst Morton Golden. The other motivation? Sex. Men use the games, says Golden, "as a fantasy to relive the youthful sexual aggressiveness that may have ebbed with age and boredom." Psychoanalysts, of course, see sex or aggression in almost any human activity, and laymen may well be skeptical of the diagnosis. But Golden insists in all seriousness that football has become a male substitute for sex, similar to the role of the soap opera for women...
...derails trains of thought, discomfits the orthodox, and disrupts debate. But he may also be responsible for preventing untold numbers of colleagues from dying of sheer boredom. What is more, he knows the ropes at the United Nations General Assembly better than anybody else, for he has been there since its first meeting in 1946. He is Jamil M. Baroody, 66, a Lebanese-born New Yorker who is Saudi Arabia's U.N. representative...
...Kesey novel from which John Gay's diffuse screenplay is derived will miss Kesey's vigor and his bigger-than-life characterizations. The book roared, the film sputters. But the actors do it more than justice. Sarrazin, whose past performances have been consistent only in their boredom, is at ease and quite effective as a maverick Stamper home from the big city. Jaeckel is perfect as an inveterate joker who takes only his fundamentalist religion seriously, and Newman is better than he has been in years as the favorite son who idolizes his father. Fonda...