Word: boredoms
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...industrial societies like the U.S., however, the problems are less spectacular. In our society there's more leisure for introspection. Too much introspection leads to boredom and boredom makes people go crazy, as a character from Tobias Wolff's short story collection, Back in the World, implies as he speaks about his experiences in Vietnam...
...have tried a number of things to combat the all-encompassing boredom which attacks the mind, such as thinking up novels or trying to unlock the primordial secrets of my brain through meditation, but such things usually resulted in stapling my hand to something or accidentally working through lunch...
...standing with a drink in your hand and boredom on the brain in a ballroom. A man with large ears comes up to you, shakes your hand, and in a British accent introduces himself as Charles, Prince of Wales...
...written by action-meister Huston. This was no 1940s period piece, taut and tawdry and black and white all over. No way. Instead, Blue City is the latest in what modern-day Hollywood sees as the cool, hip, where-it's-at youth picture, more empty-headed boredom passed off as the happeningest style...
...constantly shifting calorie levels, Katahn explains, ease eater boredom and, more important, prevent the body from significantly slowing the rate at which it burns calories, the stumbling block in most diets. Other diet experts endorse the tactic but think losing three or four pounds a week is excessive. Says Dr. George Bray of the University of Southern California: "That's not a sustainable rate of healthy weight loss." Everyone applauds the diet's psychological appeal, however. Declares Katahn: "It motivates us to be as close to perfect as we can for three weeks." Agrees Housewife Pam Kennedy, who has shed...