Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...production at Lowell House has its moments of interest and even excitement, but is hopeless against the forces of boredom. When Helena moans "O weary night, o long and tedious night," she means...
...observation of his town, than gropes around to find its lost focal point, and succeeds only in ending three or four times before the end titles; good color photography and John Fahey's original guitar score can't save Donald MacDonald's The Latter Day (UCLA) from being a tedious excursion to low-level technical competence because of its ill-conceived, impersonal idea. We imagine, in watching these films, committees of students in a think-tank saying "Hey, I've got a good idea for a film..." at best, and probably, "Hey, this wouldn...
...elaborate system of interior fountains and waterways; Sellers drifting from group to group, making inscrutable attempts at conversation; Sellers listening to a songstress while exhibiting a polite rictus of squirming agony because all the bathrooms are occupied. But most of the evening is just about as trite and tedious as a real-life party would have been with such a stereotyped guest list-the dumb cowboy star, the stuffy clubwoman, the fading movie queen, the international-society siren, the current sex symbol...
Kahlenberg's chief frustration is the necessity of tedious and tactful nego- tiation in bringing collectors out into the open, and convincing them to help. Like the studios, collectors sense the complex nature of the legal problems involved in film ownership and often prefer to hide their prints rather than risk legal battles and long expenditure of time. Although the AFI's cordial connection with the Library of Congress gives them an invaluable aid in negotiating for copies of rare films, they cannot legally guarantee an amnesty to collectors who admit ownership of black-market prints. Consequently, no uncertain skill...
...were, of course, doing a little in providing drill. Tedious afternoons working out chemistry problems, dictating passages in German, and diagramming sentences meant that a few tutees passed final exams who might have failed...