Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London and an eight-acre, 16th century manor in Kent. His real rewards, says he, are to have achieved "independence, privacy and space." Despite such serene surroundings, he insists, "I have more in common with any other freelance, from a prostitute to a delicatessen owner, than the stiff, abstract tedious people from the literary world...
...John and Katherine engage in their desultory first act conversation, however, he poses as a widower who has slept around, but "never with anyone I could care for." The two tell each other tales of woe at great and tedious length, finally retiring for the night on separate couches in Katherine's hotel room...
...English, formulate an answer, and then translate this back into German; I want them to think directly in German," Stein states. Although it is yet too early to evaluate the success of this limited oral-aural approach in reading courses, the new method certainly represents an advance over the tedious--and less educational--process of grammatical exposition. With the rapid fire of question and answer, classes become both challenging and interesting...
...Tube. For writers, too, the Private Eye shows make a socko source of income. For them, the big trick is the art of telling a story without tripping over the plot. The picture on the tube cries for action; the detective who takes time out to think becomes tedious. It was different on radio, says Writer-Producer Dick Carr, a veteran of radio's Richard Diamond and now a writer on TV's Staccato. "In radio you could always use a narrator to tie up the loose ends. I could cover any hour TV show today...
...Challenge (NBC, Sat. 8:30-9:00 p.m., E.D.T.) is "not a science-fiction series and not a documentary," says its producer, and he is only too right. Challenge is a mixture of some of the trappings of modern engineering and the tedious cliches of old-fashioned melodrama. Theoretically, the show deals with a Government scientist (George Nader) studying the limits of human endurance in dangerous situations. Actually, it presents such high-flown nonsense as a story of top-rank researchers sitting out a nuclear war in an atomic submarine and suddenly tumbling to some old problems such...