Word: boredome
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Duvalier refuses to speak with journalists, so it is impossible to know what he thinks of his new life. Given his legendary love of cars, women and the good life, it is quite possible that he finds the lazy pace agreeable. His svelte wife, however, has made her boredom plain. In an interview last December with Vanity Fair, Michele Duvalier complained that her days were a "bit empty." At 37, she thinks she might like to pursue a modeling career...
Expressing boredom at the many seminars devoted to "serious" discussions of American cuisine, she adds, "They make it all so tiresome and pretentious." As for the effort to establish a culinary center in the Manhattan town house of the late James Beard, she says, "Ridiculous. No one would hate that more than...
...understand. I have once in a while started off just setting down some incident I'd actually gone through and I can hardly get past the first paragraph without veering off into something that didn't happen, which is always more interesting. I'm highly sensitive to boredom. I think it's an occupational requirement...
...unpracticed eye, Roth's ordinary routine might seem the epitome of boredom. His favorite place to write is a gray colonial 1790 farmhouse set on roughly 40 acres of land in Connecticut's Litchfield County. He bought the place in 1972, in part to get away from the demands and notoriety that had hounded him after Portnoy. He got plenty of solitude for his money, sometimes, he acknowledges, a bit too much: "Night up here can come down like a heavy thing." Before that happens, Roth has usually put in a reclusive day. By 9:30 each morning...
...pressure on controllers can vary from place to place. A few in low- traffic regions or in centers that are adequately staffed contend that they fight boredom rather than stress. That was not at all true of a frantic controller at the Los Angeles center at Palmdale, who, according to one airline captain, announced on a smoggy day: "There is more traffic than I can point out to you. Please be careful out there...