Word: boredoms
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...play commercials to the captive audience. Buying books at the Coop is an exercise in recycling all kinds of choice advertisements that came along with your books, as the Coop sells the privilege to get your name in a bag a Harvard student will carry. Can you imagine the boredom of being paid to pre-stuff the bags before the semester begins...
...like the parody Saving Ryan's Privates free on the Internet but hopes to distribute them everywhere. That's the beauty of digital media: content can be diced up and repackaged in any conceivable way and shown anywhere, from airplanes to elevators. In the future, there will be no boredom...
...Sheer boredom with the slabs of Modernism and disenchantment with the mild remedies of Postmodernism are other reasons that something very different is happening. Exploded boxes appeal right away to that place in the brain that hates not just Modernism but also modernity, the part that cheers when some atrocious housing project gets brought down with dynamite. As it happens, Modernism itself flourished in a world that had been blown away by the physical and psychic clearance project of World War II. Postwar corporations wanted triumphant office towers that owed nothing to the rubble of the old world...
...Kirshner doesn't think boredom is to blame...
...raid - the movement's civil aviation minister Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor called Monday for British forces to storm the Afghan plane. "The British may be reluctant to storm the plane with so many women and children on board," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "They're more likely to simply use boredom as a weapon, waiting out the crisis and letting the hijackers tire and then later offering them...