Word: boredome
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...self-deprecation. Recalling growing up as Edgar Bergen's daughter, she says: "One may not turn out exactly normal when you have two wooden dummies for brothers, each with his own room." Or her days with the jet set: "That was a valuable exposure to the ultimate in boredom." Or her screen performances: "I'm great at the physical stuff: running, riding, jumping. Acting-that's another story...
...point of this sequence- it may be just that non-referential speech has no meaning. But as it stands, Godard's method of presentation does not lead us to that conclusion. If anything the sequence is so confusing and long that it discourages critical involvement. The spectacle of boredom that results is almost as reactionary as the spectacle of "real life" to which Hollywood has accustomed...
...husband, "I'll kill myself." She does, and her husband is left to reflect on her not as a woman he loved without tenderness but as a natural element that he needed for his own survival. And the reader is left to reflect too. About the emptiness and boredom that addicts some people to the idea of leading serial lives, about the consumer culture that feeds the idea with fantasies, and about the society that provides the opportunities to realize those fantasies -for better or worse...
...grown to respect. Somehow, their world seemed more like ours-transcontinental, underground, and more than real. Instead of offering anxiety as the primary mode or reaction to their surroundings, these poets preferred to take the pressure of reality for granted and find other ways of expressing their dissatisfaction and boredom...
...last, best first-person story of what took place at the power center as Hitler moved from political triumph to military disaster. While he was murdering Jews, ravaging Europe and destroying Germany, life at his court was a round of bickering intrigue, interminable monologues and atrocious boredom...