Word: boredomization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...intricately presented collections of absolutely random objects is blatantly clear with the crowning jewel of the show. Her "Altered Receipts" is a collection of ingenious doodles on receipts from places like Finagle A Bagel and Banana Republic. Taken individually, each receipt could be construed as the product of intense boredom, yet the line of barely recognizable receipts, each individually framed and centered on white paper, underscores how art can be found anywhere and created from anything, even a receipt from Marshalls...
Karr's coming-of-age chronicle follows a well-beaten path, from worries about fitting in at high school to the belief that most of the classmates there are losers and jerks. Drugs crop up as an antidote to boredom, and Karr re-creates in detail a number of trippy larks that she shared with fellow users. "Guess you kind of had to be there," a friend says after hearing Karr's account of one such adventure. Cherry does not quite get you there...
...Would you not give up all the fancy boredom of the so-called life of the mind to be standing on a pedestal, mouthing the words to the National Anthem? Forget the Olympics. Would you not be ecstatic simply to be an athlete living young, beginning every morning by climbing into some garish warm-up suit and preposterously engineered running shoes and going higher, faster, stronger...
...sardonic, often arrogant, prone to lecture. In parliamentary debate, his style drove the good solid Tories of the opposition into spasms of rage. His shoulders would sag with boredom at a question, his head would sink down and sidewise and he would begin a soft singsong response to a hostile inquiry, radiating contempt. When aroused, he was a different animal. His chin would jut and he would sneer, spitting out answers...
...assumed purpose of an internship is to experiment working within a professional field. From the vantage point of a relatively naive 20-year-old, I only know what I dreaded to be part of my future profession, namely boredom, fatigue and monotony. I have long wanted to pursue a career in journalism in part because the industry was constantly changing and moving forward yet at the same time able to balance itself by looking to the past...