Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfect airplane book should distract during long, tedious hours of bad food and crying babies without absorbing so completely that the reader forgets to pray for a smooth landing. If, in addition, it whets the appetite for faraway places, the summertime traveler has the perfect prelude to vacation reading...
...three-month, tedious, low-paying summer job never failed to reaffirm my belief in the value of completing my education "on schedule." That, and the prospect of repaying my education loans...
Since we are also shielded from the few suspicions that Holden is permitted, we never make the kind of identification with a strong, appealing, endangered figure that the horror genre requires. The result is a movie full of much tedious talk relieved by the occasional gaudy murder...
Wrong notes intrude; unlike almost all modern artists, he neither practiced be fore the sessions ("Practicing is tedious anathema to me") nor redubbed passages to smooth out errors. In a final heresy, he embraces sentimentality, the witch word of the 20th century. "The more gushing, the better," he proclaims...
...Memoirs, which became available to TIME last week and will go on sale in bookstores next week, contribute relatively little that is new to his Watergate story. But anyone who is interested in international politics will find in his 1,120-page volume a mountain of both intriguing and tedious personal detail on Nixon's pursuit of detente with Soviet leaders, his opening of diplomatic relations with Communist China, and his ending the U.S. involvement in Viet...