Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irony that seems half wisdom and half love, and in a style as rich and dark and subtle as old Marsala. In this film, Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers) preserves the author's tone as well as his tale, and in the course of three occasionally tedious hours develops a composite portrait of a time, a place and a man that finally emerges as a splendid set piece of cinema...
Robert Lanchester attains no minor milestone. In Little Me Sid Caesar created a six distinct comic roles. Lanchester goes one step further--he creates six indistinct ones. On several occasions, though, he is very funny to watch as he combines verbal and visual dexterity. He makes the Shakespearian buffoon, Tedious, into a physically contorted Elizabethan-pretzel...
Mouse House. In a little frame build ing around the corner from his labs, one of his assistants pipes the urine into a heat exchanger to remove most of the water. Then other assistants subject the concentrate to a tedious series of steps, dissolving and redissolving, to get out the promine and retine. The two substances are maddeningly similar. To get them apart, the technicians rely on the fact that promine separates out more readily in an acid solution, and retine in one that is alkaline. What they have left after days of work is admittedly still impure. Dr. Szent...
Everingham's Man and Superman has its problems; the talk does get tedious in spots. Still, Shaw remains remarkably funny and the Harvard players have enhanced his wit with a good, workmanlike production well worth seeing
...presterilized and disposable after a single use. Ready-to-use formulas supplied in quart cans are drained into the bottle through a plastic tube inserted by needle into the nipple -a process that takes only 15 seconds, and can be done right in the nursery. There is no more tedious measuring and mixing of formulas, no overnight refrigeration, no rewarming or washing and sterilizing of bottles for reuse. To buy and prepare Beniflex costs only 14? per unit, about the same as present feeding methods; but by changing to the new system, St. Joseph's Hospital in Denver figures...