Word: boredoms
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...Magnificent Seven (1960), which, in turn, was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's magnificent, often profound 1954 drama about a septet of chivalrous samurai in late feudal Japan. Only holdover from Hollywood's previous Seven is Brynner, repeating his role as ringleader with the bald-faced boredom of an hombre who knows he has strapped his saddle to a dead horse. The movie can claim one minuscule distinction: it provides the first serious acting role for Pop Singer Jordan Christopher, who married well but otherwise seems unlikely to follow in Richard Burton's footsteps...
...film-making aims for a similar scope, spewing forth spectacle and color everywhere. But Hawaii falls flat on its face on both counts. Far from achieving any dramatic or visual size, Hawaii is only an omnibus of low-level emotional and physical discomforts: boredom, embarrassment, seasickness, minor bruises, labor pains, first degree burns, and others on a similar scale...
...director of Holland's Turmac Tobacco Co., has put his love for abstract art to industrial use. "However complicated the operation of a machine may look," he says, "it soon becomes a monotonous routine to a factory worker." Like many another industrial leader, Orlow (pronounced Orlov) figured that boredom was reflected in production figures, so he commissioned 13 painters to produce art for his plant...
...plot a 19th century French bedroom farce, in setting a Scottish castle, Cheval projects the true tone of Sagan's languorous existentialism-a tone that has been characterized as boredom raised to the level of a passion. What's more, it projects her wit to a new and unexpected height. Amid a tangle of French fortune hunters trying to undo the clothing and the purse strings of a noble Scottish family, Sagan finds room to run Wilde. "If I married you," a girl tells her libertine fiancé, "how long would I have to wait before betraying...
...sense of style" involving "mastery over all one does, with simplicity, harmony and grace." At the same time, it should develop a "sense of worth" based largely on "passionately held beliefs and passionately felt responses to experience." Not at all incidentally, good schooling should also provide "an escape from boredom" and "lead us to laugh in the face of heaven or hell. Education should teach us to play the wise fool rather than turn us into the solemn...