Is the real world with its dreary problems, about to become chic?
In a tense, uncertain world, folks want to be entertained and moved by the pursuit of something purer and larger than themselves and their dreary problems.
Indonesia's lofty politicians rarely stoop to solving such dreary problems or allowing voters to speak to them.Jokowi's reputation for running a clean government and getting things done spread fast, and propelled him on to the national stage.
But this new freedom has not solved any of Egypt's dreary daily problems: corruption, insecurity, poverty, human rights abuses.
Here, as in other movies that use violence to jolt up the dreary proceedings, Chris and his problem turn out to be the warm-up act for Killer Joe.
Others point to the thorny old problem of race or the dreary question of the structure of municipal government statewide.
This kind of otiose country wisdom had always baffled him, and he thought of dreary church potluck suppers, where the strident problems of the outside world were dismissed with a chuckle.
Following Christopher Wheeldon's pretty but formulaic "Soirée Musicale" and Angelin Preljocaj's dreary and foolish "Spectral Evidence," "Namouna" is undeniably a problem piece.
They are there to teach problem-solving, but so, too, are the dreary exercises of Hanon and Czerny, bogymen of every child at the keyboard.
Airport problems, garrulous seatmates, jet lag, lonely evenings, dreary continental breakfasts -- every business traveler has experienced those annoyances and nobody wants to hear about them.
