Word: boredome
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...Seagull as the Q.E.D. of human tragedy, lucidly observed. In English-language productions, all this has been sustained by country-house diction supported by the characterological self-control necessary to maintain strong emotion over long sentences. These productions were, and are often powerful but they have two chronic diseases--boredom spawned by excessive refinement of speech and movement, and sympathetic anesthesia brought on by conventions that often dwindle into mannered absurdities. An audience can have too much of droopy trees and existential pluck. And there is of course always the question of whether Dr. Chekhov has anything to do with...
Elvira Madigan tells us we should not dream of it--not on this earth anyway. It does not work. The spirit wastes away from boredom. We are men. We search for the apocalypse. And we find it at the barrel...
...party members in the 600-person Warsaw branch of the Writers' Union to 10%, and a current revival of official anti-Semitism will probably reduce it even further. Nor are the intellectuals alone in their restlessness; among Poland's 32 million citizens, too, there is a growing boredom, if not dissatisfaction, with the regime. With only 1,860,000 members, Poland's Communist Party is now proportionately one of the smallest ruling Communist parties in the world. Naturally, the party's malaise tends to become the butt of the very humor that the regime fears...
...director would have dared to try, or could have brought off half so well: Alphaville's portrayal of the future as nightmare, achieved through location-shooting in present-day Paris; the bittersweet evocations of prewar Hollywood musicals in A Woman Is a Woman; the female mood of sensual boredom in The Married Woman...
...CALLED THE SUGAR PLUM are one-acters marking the propitious off-Broadway debut of 28-year-old Israel Horovitz. Plum is an absurdist love waltz between a boy and a girl. Bronx boils up a cauldron of terror with the litter of abused humanity, as out of sheer desperate boredom, two street punks ridicule, badger, and finally knife to death a bewildered East Indian on his first day in New York City...