Word: boredome
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However, one wonders if a ticket at the midfield line is compensation enough for sitting through two hours of boredom...
...grows. Animals, too, draw people out of excessive self-interest, their existence a statement of need. A dog's eyes search your face for a mystery as deep as God, asking nothing and everything, the way that music operates. He hopes that you always love music, even the noisy boredom you clamp to your ears these days, while he harbors the prayer that in later years will follow Vivaldi and Bix Beiderbecke. If you learn to love jazz, you will have a perpetual source of joy at the ready. Jazz is serious joy, much like yourself...
...Viet Nam, just before the 1968 Tet offensive. Local hookers peddle their pleasures while Joker and a soft, eager photographer called Rafterman (Kevyn Major Howard) dodge thieves and boredom. Their job is to rouge up the war for the Stars and Stripes, to turn the horror into cheering press releases. No soldier believes a bit of it. Everyone has reached a state of exalted cynicism. "Welcome to Viet Nam, the Movie," Joker sneers to an American camera crew. "You think we waste gooks for freedom?" says the Marine called Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin). Crazy Earl (Kieron Jecchins), who poses next...
...winner-take-all electoral system ((WORLD, June 1)), but so does the U.S. The difference is that the British settle the matter in 24 days, while we devote 24 hours a day, month after month, to tangling, wangling and wrangling before we can reach a decision. For sheer boredom and lack of productivity, it is hard to beat the American system...
Betty Blue is a sexy, feminist film by a male director, reminiscent of the great "woman's films"--like Mildred Pierce and Camille--which Hollywood produced at its height. L'Annee de Meduses is merely a vapid testimony to the boredom of life--and film--on the beach. If a director really wants to set drama on the beach, he had better pull a strong character out of the deep like Jaws...