Word: overlong
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...Moby Dick - Rehearsed in the Space. Performances are uniformly excellent, and the only quibble is Call's choice of plays. Molière is always Molière. But all Brecht is not good Brecht, and it would take more than the Denver company to turn the overlong, tedious Chalk Circle into an exciting evening. Welles' play shows the enormous capabilities of the Space, but that is about all. It is good theater, but not good drama...
...marching. In addition, Target 26 trudges far too long through the minutiae of long-distance running. The authors remind readers unnecessarily that runners' "arms should move in a pendulum fashion, bending at the elbows with a smooth rhythm that matches the cadence of the stride," or, after an overlong section on diet, conclude that foods that tend to make runners sick should be avoided before races. The two walking books, both titled The Complete Book of Walking (Simon & Schuster; $10, and Farnsworth; $9.95), have been padded out with chapters explaining such obvious things as the need to wear well...
...Lydon's experiments fail not only because they are overlong but because they are, at base, ill-conceived; he is plainly playing with things he doesn't understand. haphazard electronic effects and innovation for innovation's sake do not succeed for experiment's sake; valid experimental music requires a knowledge and understanding, a directive genius, that this album simply lacks. However much he thinks producers are "rubbish" and superfluous, Lydon could only have been helped by the masterful touch of someone like Brian...
Orton's grisly end and stark beginnings enclose one of the most compelling biographies of the past year, a psychological study of egos in conflict, marred but not destroyed by Author John Lahr's overlong digressions into literary analysis...
...best nor worst of times, as free of a predominant theme as of a singular direction. Maybe the reason is not even visible. Maybe the little energy left over from the '60s got mostly spent, in secret, on assimilating and liquidating the traumas and griefs of that overlong epoch. If so, then perhaps the most memorable thing about the '70s has been simply that, as Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset observed, "nothing disastrous is happening." Such a historical pause may not at the moment seem worth remembering - but it will as soon as disaster drops among us again...