Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the most thorough study yet made of the drug, with state prison inmates who volunteered for tedious and sometimes painful tests, Dr. Kligman offers some negative findings. DMSO, he says, provides practically no relief for itching or superficial pain. As a germ killer, it is weak "and far inferior to alcohol." It does nothing to promote the healing of clean, simple burns, and it worsened one of ten ultraviolet burns. DMSO also failed to tranquilize any of 20 men in a six-month test. Nevertheless, it has some remarkably beneficial properties...
...cute house, the nice neighborhood, the exceptional TV set. Afterwards everyone has a monologue−Pierre on the importance of memory, Charlotte on the importance of living in the present, the journalist on the importance of intelligence. Then Charlotte and Pierre go to bed and run through the predictably tedious anatomical rituals and the same signals across space...
...annoyed or insulted at the content matter (the lecherous priest who is having an affair with his parishioner's wife) can find good excuse, but if you view the play solely for amusement, it's quite enjoyable. Innes McDade, as Tyb, was good on the whole, but rather tedious. Her facial expressions tended to be too artificial, falling into set patterns for each emotion she wanted to convey, and Johan's artful interplay with the audience lost its easy intimacy and became rather forced when she attempted to employ it. Jack Salomon, as the priest, was more natural and consequently...
...measurement machines do not seem able to detect it, but listeners' eardrums are evidently more sensitive. For years, radio and TV owners have been blitzing the Federal Communications Commission with complaints about the loudness of commercials in comparison to the sound level of programs. Last week, after a tedious two-year study, the FCC agreed with the complaints. They "obviously cannot be dismissed on the ground that 'commercials aren't really loud, they just sound loud,'" declared the commission. The presentation of commercials "in a loud, rapid and strident manner" is "contrary to the public interest...
...young wife come to their country estate they draw to their circle a country doctor who comes to treat the professor's gout and stays to admire his lady. The life of the estate comes to revolve around this trio; the country people are sucked into shaping their once-tedious lives around the newcomers, until finally, when they depart, those who remain can only sigh again and again, "They're gone...