Word: boredoms
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...excepting only the spots in which he unfortunately choose to accentuate the play's pointless violence. Certainly the pace did not slacken at any point under Mr. Gitter's hand. For only brief moments, during which Mr. Gregory and Mr. Aaron decided that communism is basically evil, did boredom creep onto the stage...
...those who once rubbed shoulders in the diplomatic corps with former Russian Ambassador Alexander Panyushkin crawled slightly at the news that he was now the efficient chief of MVD's assassination department. To Washingtonians who had found the ambassador's stilted conversation pedestrian to the point of boredom, it was cold comfort to realize that they had merely seized on topics that failed to interest him. On the right subject, apparently, Panyushkin could be fascinating. "He is a clever and attractive person," said ex-MVDman Khokhlov in Bonn last week, "and he knows how to explain...
...this case, the boredom is surprisingly unrelieved by the fact that Vittorio de Sica (Shoeshine, Bicycle Thief} is directing the crowd in the waiting room. Jennifer Jones is "a housewife from Philadelphia," a mother who has taken a brief vacation from marriage. Montgomery Clift is an Italian college professor, the sort of tourist attraction Italy has offered to northern women since the days of the Ostrogoths. At one point he lures Jennifer into a darkened train compartment and gives her a clinching argument for not going home. Surprised by the terminal police, the lovers are haled before a magistrate...
...elder Osborne succeeds in keeping a big oil company from industrializing sleepy old East Bank never gets to be of any real interest. And Tom's love affair with a girl who at first doesn't understand East Bankers is pallid to the point of boredom...
...even with all the boredom of interplanetary travel, a lusty earthman can still lift his voice in a space chanty...