Word: boredome
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...Boredom is a major part of the explanation. Political reporters are as underemployed as Maytag repairmen. Michael Dukakis steamrollered over Jesse Jackson by almost a 3-to-1 vote in last week's Ohio and Indiana primaries and thereby flattened the last scant hopes of Democratic drama. With the vice presidency now the only game in town, the press is treating it with the same fate-of-the-earth gravity that was once lavished on the Iowa caucuses...
...Boredom and isolation make prison unbearable, some inmates say. "You ever get irritated during class, stare out the window until the bell rings, get up and leave without caring what you missed? It's like that for whole years in here," Williams says. "There's nothing in this building to make you feel good about yourself, and [the guards] get paid to make it worse. You have to shut yourself off to survive...
...characters in White Mischief behave as if they were suffering from a slight but unshakable fever. In some victims the chief symptom is a languid indifference to conventional morality. In others the illness manifests itself in a restless pursuit of the usual home remedies for boredom: drugs, alcohol and, of course, outrageous sex. You could blame this malaise on Kenya's equatorial weather -- bound to have a curious effect on the dank blue blood of English aristocrats. More likely, though, the idle colonial social climate, circa 1940-41, is doing them in. With too much time on their hands...
...sudden bipartisan harmony? Partly because exhaustion and even boredom have taken a toll in seven years of bitter ideological combat; mostly because the battle over this budget has already largely been fought. Reagan's document embodies the compromise deficit-reduction plan forged during the emergency White House-Congress budget summit held during those anxious days last fall after the stock market crashed. Noting that the document "does not fully reflect my priorities," the President said, "I am adhering to the bipartisan budget agreement and keeping my part of the bargain. I ask Congress to do the same." The lawmakers seemed...
...great irony of this film is that it isn't really about the Rolling Stones nearly so much as it is about a rock tour--yes, with its attendant sleaze, but also with its attendant boredom, superficiality, dreariness and plain stupidity. The sleaze isn't a dominant theme so much as a simple reality. Something happened--Keith shot up--so here it is on celluloid. The camera doesn't pay any special attention to Keith's drug use, at least no more attention than anyone on the tour seems to be paying. Frank's chief aim in this film seems...