Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over a period of several weeks by Correspondents Robin Mannock and Dan Coggin and Saigon Bureau Chief Simmons Fentress. Their sources, in the main, were captured documents, defectors from the Viet Cong ranks, captured suspects in the field, and military and civilian experts. Much of their work involved long, tedious probing into material that did not seem to mean much by itself, but which made up important pieces of the puzzle that is the Viet Cong.* The correspondents, as well as Senior Editor Richard Seamon and Writer Jason McManus working in New York, combined their efforts toward...
...kind of tedious scene that would strain the nerves of the most seasoned actors. But Ben, star of the forthcoming CBS-TV series, Gentle Ben, fended off the attack of a Bengal tiger with almost playful aplomb, breezed through the retakes without missing a cue. Congratulated by Producer George Sherman, Ben merely grunted and slurped down a can of sardines-just as any 7ft.-long, 650-lb. black bear would do after a hard day on the set. Says Sherman: "You look at the script and say 'a bear can't do those things...
...material seems to have moved the Vintage Company and artistic director Michael Murray to a vigorous and commendable effort. Cautious pruning of the text (omitting a Beckettish spot where two cronies, stimulated by an innuendo from the Chief, march off to murder Bob and Ted, and a tedious dialogue on radical strategy from the witches) and a generous deployment of sound and properties, have tightened up an unwieldy piece of theatre. The mounting racket of loudspeakers and the only rarely excessive musical numbers create a rhythm which jars the principals past MacBird's remaining snags. John Seitzg, who stood...
...best in the lushness of the palace rooms. He has Eisenstein's passion for objects, particularly chandeliers, and for pageantry. By rapid cutting from dancer to objects to this or that on-looker he gives motion to ceremonies which I imagine would be otherwise tedious to Occidentals. In fact, it is chiefly through the visual manipulations that the movie is comprehensible to Westerners. A few scenes, shot by the walls of the palace or on its roof, recall the periods of magical quiet in the courtyard episodes in Rasho Mon, and it is at these times that the film seems...
...distaste for Dallas distorted his perspective, other personal judgments intrude too often into the story. The Death of a President deserved better editing than it got. By simply eliminating those numerous single sentences of gratuitous, overly emotional, often incorrect comments, the manuscript would have lost fifty or so tedious and maddening pages...