Word: boredome
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...simple novel of two women trying to change their way of life. One, a sheltered spinster, seeks salvation by becoming a prostitute and does manage to achieve a heightened sense of herself. The other woman sets off to find sin and excitement and discovers in stead spiritual narcosis and boredom. Most Bowles characters seem to suffer from a total lack of motivation; they must be seen and interpreted solely in their relation to one another. The poker-faced prose is distinguished by a dry irony and deadpan humor that make Jane Bowles a kind of Buster Keaton of literature...
Until this year, when the B.U. owned but professionally-operated WBUR-FM came up with an exciting alternative to the boredom which is Boston radio. From midnight until three every morning except Tuesday they broadcast a hip combination of in-music and far-out rapping by a 26-year-old former B.U. student who goes by the name of Uncle...
...from the faraway bullpen like a matador with his warmup jacket slung over his pitching arm (he will now ride in a golf cart); no longer will a batter try to rattle the pitcher by demanding that the umpire examine the ball. What's left to relieve the boredom? The seventh-inning stretch...
...gone into life insurance-but Stella painted on. His latest canvases, on view at the Castelli Gallery, are newly brilliant with a rainbow of Day-Glo colors, but they are as elemental in concept as ever (see color opposite). What has changed is that instead of being banned for boredom, Stella at the age of 31 is being heralded as one of the most influential artists in New York City, and has had his outsized canvases shown in scores of important museums and international exhibitions...
Rosenberg's camera records boredom (trucks rolling out in the dark and back home in the dusk), beauty (swatches of blue background sky with dusty greens and yellows splashed onto the screen in pleasing rhythms), and oppression (a slew of low-lying shots of guards' boots thumping on the ground...