Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alas, if the nine city councillors read the CRIMSON, they would already know where the odors are coming from and spare Mr. Curry a tedious research...
...plot of Poet centers around Sara's schemes for marriage. It is an involved plot, and the tedious verbal explanations it requires account for much of the play's weakness. Because we never see the young gentleman, a good deal of important off-stage action must be explained...
HARAKIRI. A gory, sometimes tedious, sometimes beautiful dramatic treatise on an old Japanese custom: ritual suicide...
...racial intermarriage was submitted by its makers as an unofficial American entry and ended by winning a Best Actress award for its star, Barbara Barrie. Now U.S. filmgoers can see for themselves that the hot Potato hardly deserves to be whipped into a cause celebre. It is an often tedious and oversimplified polemic, even though Actress Barrie's sensitive, unaffected performance does lend some dramatic validity...
...Twisted. Kesey has given himself space for some funny, sharply drawn minor characters and some fine logging scenes. But there is too much of the tedious Lee, too many thrown-in anecdotes. The book suffers from a Thomas Wolfish effort to be as big and brawling as the country it describes. The attempt blurs Kesey's view of his real theme-the weakness of the strong and the persistent tensility of the weak...